Quotes About Interpretation

Revelation, Charlie explained, predicted that locusts would come, and locusts were, of course, beetles—the Beatles. John said that the locusts would have "scales like iron breastplates"—according to Charlie, these were the Beatles' guitars. And there was more: Revelation also told of angels coming to earth, with the first four being the Beatles. The fifth, "given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit," was Charlie.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.

Shared documents aren't shared understanding.

We can both read the same document, but have a different understanding of it.

She tucked her chin to her chest and looked at me like I was a Neanderthal. Except I remembered that scientists had recently discovered that Neanderthals were actually probably capable of complex thought and communication so that analogy wouldn't work anymore.

A tree looked like it was eating somebody, but it may also have been bathing them.

I find it's almost impossible to put two words together and not find at least some meaning. We're conditioned to look for patterns and identify mysteries to solve much more than we are designed to dictate what we're searching for. I recommend allowing that natural curiosity and our sense-making brains to do their thing.

There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.

The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

Looking for hidden meaning in these papers was the same as looking for hidden meaning in the natural world around us. If it existed, it could be activated only by the eye of the beholder.

the longer I looked the more certain I became that these figures were real and living, though perhaps not according to the standards that the camera and the biologist would insist upon.

Nothing that lived and breather was truly objective-even in a vaccum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Metamorfosis! ¿Qué sería "metamorfosis" sin el diccionario…? Un montón de letritas negras.

Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

People are mistaken if they believe that the only choice is between silence and speech. One silence can hide another.

To blues purists, the Chambers Brothers, Lightnin' Hopkins—even, at a stretch, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry—were authentic exponents of an ethnic folk culture, while Bloomfield, Butterfield, and Bishop, talented as they might be, were interpreters. That Butterfield had two black musicians in his band proved he was genuinely linked to the tradition, not that he was genuinely part of it.

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