Famous quotes containing the words narrative of, narrative, life, frederick and/or douglass:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“What life have you if you have not life together?
There is no life that is not in community,”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“Minimize, eliminate, delegate, and routinize. Decide what’s important and forget the rest”
—Donna N. Douglass (20th century)