Mandy Aftel quotes

“As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.”
-- Mandy Aftel

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“In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.”
-- Mandy Aftel

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“In a bouquet of mixed roses, most people can distinguish at a glance the delicacy of a tea rose from the voluptuousness of a cabbage rose, but how many could so readily differentiate between the tea rose's scent of freshly harvested tea and the spicy, honeylike, rich floral scent of the cabbage?”
-- Mandy Aftel

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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.”

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

“You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media

“I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.”

“There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.”

“I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.”