Famous quotes containing the words person, narrative and/or mode:
“Nothing gives one person so great advantage over another, as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.”
—Robert Coover (b. 1932)
“The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity, and, accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live, work and live, and all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition, and the question and the answer are one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)