Quotes About Interpretation

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

One of the most interesting findings in modern psychology is that the way people perceive and interpret things affects how they feel about them. As the old saying goes, there are two sides to every story. Now, modern science tells us that the side people see affects what they think, how they feel, and ways they behave.

Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.

And I call it like I see it and my glasses on. But most of yall dont get the picture less the flash is on.

I call ya how I see ya.

Swallow my words, taste my thoughts, and if they to nasty spit it back at me.

Entonces advierte en él algo que muchas veces leyó en los libros: se ha reído con los ojos.

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.

The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

When only one person is the expert on a particular people, do we learn more about the people or the anthropologist when we read the analysis?

The story you think you know is never the real one.

That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

God, you poets are full of shit. You have no idea what half the words you worship mean.

We're always, in everything we do in this world, she said, limited by subjectivity.

But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She

Then I understood how hard it is to re-create in words what you see and feel in your head. That's what I love about Bernhard in the book. He manages to simulate consciousness, and it's contagious because while you're reading it rubs off on you and your mind starts working like that for a while. I love that. That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature. Not themes or symbols or the rest of that crap they teach in high school.

Ik zou het nog niet half zo lang hebben volgehouden,' zei ik, maar toen besefte ik dat hij in veel opzichten op de Dobu leek: zijn paranoïde trekjes, zijn zwarte humor, zijn wantrouwen jegens plezier, zijn geheimzinnigdoenerij. Ik ging als vanzelf aan zijn resultaten twijfelen. Als er maar één kenner van een bepaald volk is, zegt diens analyse dan meer over dat volk of over hem? Zoals gewoonlijk was ik meer geïnteresseerd in het raakvlak tussen die twee dan in andere dingen.

But don't you think there are larger issues the author is trying to explore?' 'Yes, but they shouldn't be given primacy over or even separated from the experience of the story itself.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. Words aren't always the most reliable thing.

We always sound confident when we're talking about the other person's book.