Quotes About Interpretation

A lição que se pode tirar de um mito reside na literalidade da narrativa, não nos acréscimos que lhe impomos do exterior.

Le cose che il romanzo non dice sono necessariamente più di quelle che dice, e solo un particolare riverbero di ciò che è scritto può dare l'illusione di stare leggendo anche il non scritto.

though there are some foods you don't know, mentioned by name, which the translator has decided to leave in the original; for example, schoëblintsjia

Opening a path for yourself, with a sword's blade, in the barrier of pages becomes linked with the thought of how much the word contains and conceals: you cut your way through reading as if through a dense forest.

For this woman," Arkadian Porphyrich continues, seeing how intently you are drinking in his words, "reading means stripping herself of every forgone conclusion, to be ready to catch a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the conventions of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say.

Lo que dirige el relato no es la voz: es el oído.

What does my daughter have to do with crocodiles?

How can a dialogue be established between the two of you if each thinks he hears, not the words of the other, but his own words, repeated by the echo?

È una delle grandi difficoltà della vita d'indovinare ciò che una donna vuole. Ascoltarne le parole non serve, perché tutto un discorso può essere annullato da uno sguardo e neppure questo sa dirigerci quando ci si trova con lei, per suo volere, in una comoda buia stanzuccia.

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In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor

No lo dudes, tu gran carácter carece de secretos para mí, incluso cuando no sé descifrar una palabra, comprendo o creo comprender lo que querías decir con los peculiares trazos de tu pluma

Le donne sono fatte così. Ogni giorno che sorge porta loro una nuova interpretazione del passato. Dev'essere una vita poco monotona la loro.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

I am a writer, not a transcriber.

to speak that dialect called if

It is said it takes a good storyteller to turn ears into eyes, but luckily life itself sometimes performs that trick on us.

Like I said, one man's pornography is another man's brass reading lamp with the articulated adjustable arm and three-way light bulb.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Contextualism is only the flipside of logocentrism.

Experience does not interpret itself.