Quotes About Interpretation

All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

la mitad de una novela la pone el que la escribe, y la otra mitad el que la lee.

Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate between what really happened and what is pure invention. Everything becomes a narrative and sounds fictitious even if it's true.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión.

What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," " pas davantage " in French.

What happened is the least of it. It's a novel, and once you've finished a novel, what happened in it is of little importance and soon forgotten. What matter are the possibilities and ideas that the novelist's imaginary plot communicates to us and infuses us with, a plot that we recall far more vividly than real events and to which we pay far more attention.

existe en todas las lenguas que yo conozco, las lenguas no suelen equivocarse juntas.

A verdade nunca resplandece, como diz a fórmula, porque a única verdade é a que não se conhece nem se transmite, a que não se traduz em palavras nem em imagens, a encoberta e não averiguada, e talvez por isso se conte tanto ou se conte tudo, para que nunca tenha ocorrido nada, uma vez que se conta

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión. Con

todo puede ser ridículo o trágico según quién lo cuente y cómo se cuente

se tarda más en hablar que en echar un prefijado polvo, sea de nuevo mal dicho y para mejor entendernos.

acontecido es por eso mucho menos grave siempre que los temores y las hipótesis, las

Y sí, yo lo echaba enormemente de menos y me imaginaba que él a mí también. Pero lo del otro pertenece siempre a ese terreno, al de la imaginación. Uno nunca sabe a ciencia cierta, ni siquiera sabe si las declaraciones más encendidas son verdad o interpretación o convención, son sentidas o lo que el otro cree que le toca sentir y está dispuesto a decir.

De waarheid is nooit glashelder, blijft altijd een warnet. Zelfs als de draden ontrafelt zijn

Nada peor que buscar el sentido o creer que lo hay. O sí lo habría, aún peor: creer que el sentido de algo, aunque sea del detalle más nimio, dependerá de nosotros o de nuestras acciones, de nuestro propósito o nuestra función, creer que hay voluntad, que hay destino, e incluso una trabajosa combinación de ambos.

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

The goal shouldn't be to remove interpretation or judgment. It should be to make judgments thoughtfully, and once made, to have them be transparent and discussable.

The big three blind spots are tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. The listener is very aware of these, the talker is not.

Most of us assume that our feelings are static and nonnegotiable, and that if they are to be shared authentically, they must be shared "as is." In fact, our feelings are based on our perceptions, and our perceptions (as we have seen in the preceding three chapters) are negotiable.

What is the story we are telling ourselves that is giving rise to how we feel? What is our story missing? What might the other person's story be? Almost

Too often we confuse being emotional with expressing emotions clearly.

Of course, neither Doug nor Andrew walked away from the parade thinking, "I enjoyed my particular perspective on the parade based on the information I paid attention to." Each walked away thinking, "I enjoyed the parade." Each assumes that what he paid attention to was what was significant about the experience. Each assumes he has "the facts.