Quotes About Subjectivity

Ognuno si organizza la memoria come gli conviene.

Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I'm able to say.

Há tempos eu já percebera que cada um organiza a memória como lhe convém, e ainda hoje me surpreendo ao fazer o mesmo.

Cada um conta a própria vida como acha melhor.

Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.

Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo sólo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga.

The things that interest me and the stories I want to write, their factual accuracy is not something I want to make a claim about. I don't want people to know what details are true and which ones aren't. I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

A further distinction between people depends on whether they habitually place greater emphasis on the importance of outer objective events or inner subjective ones (i.e. whether their attitude to reality is characteristically extraverted or introverted).

But listening to or participating in music can restore a person to himself, as the epigraph to this chapter suggests. People need to recapture what has been excluded during working hours: their subjectivity.

It's extremely important to know that how you appreciate a movie has everything to do with your life experience at the moment when you see it, how you see it and where you see it.

My cup is yellow Or not, though not's Impossible It's yellow

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.

Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, daß sie nicht die Gestalt des Kamels angenommen hat, das er jeden Tag im Spiegel sieht.

Every honest attempt to discover the truth and depict things faithfully is a struggle against one's own subjectivity and partiality, one's individual and class interests; one can seek to become aware of these as a source of error, while realizing that they can never be finally excluded.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Het vel van de sardines is zo mooi, het is mooier dan het vel van de mens, maar hij moet toegeven dat hij nog nooit heeft gezien hoe menselijk vel eruitziet als je het bakt in een pan.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Generally speaking, I think one has to take reviews with a grain of salt, unless you know who the person is and what their qualifications are.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.