Quotes About Subjectivity

I don't think 'Mulholland Drive' is a horror movie.

To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself , in your own name, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the multiplicities everywhere within them, to the intensities running through them.

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject.

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Real?, adev?rat?, este doar devenirea îns??i, blocul de devenire, nu niÈ™te termeni presupuÈ™i ficÈ™i în care s-ar transforma cel care devine. ... Devenirea-animal a omului este real? f?r? ca animalul care devine omul s? fie real. ... o devenire nu are un subiect distinct de ea îns??i... (Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari)

Les évaluations, rapportées à leur élément, ne sont pas des valeurs, mais des manières d'être, des modes d'existence de ceux qui jugent et évaluent.

Everyone has their own version of a memory

It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.

Todo el mundo tiene su propia versión de un recuerdo

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

If a man speaks in the heart of a forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.

It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.

Mrs. Todd was a pretty if coarse-looking girl with thick brows, an endearing husky laugh and rather too much flesh on her bones for my taste, which often rules me but is no tyrant.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people.

as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts.

Of course, everything depends on who is telling the story. It always does.

Faulkner did the same thing in Absalom, Absalaom, demonstrating that no two people ever experience the same event, and that history is doomed ot only be a version of events.

You don't get to be the decider of what is yours and what can't be someone else's experience.