Quotes About Interpretation

The sincere reaction to making meaningful art is often speechlessness. We make art about what we cannot understand through any other method. The finished product is like a pearl, complete and beautiful, but mute about itself. The writer has given us this piece of his interior and there is frequently no explanation, nothing to be said about it. Often, the writer himself has very little idea of what he has created.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

He gathers information that we can't see, and puts it together.

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?

When every page has been read and the book has been put down, is the story over? Some stories flow onward through the reader's imagination. Some authors leave playgrounds for the reader's mind

You might find it helpful to read the works of Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. The hallmark of a truly great philosopher is that he never writes books on philosophy, and those two are the best. Anderson for how to get along with people who are conspicuously wrong, and Heinlein for when not to.

Alas, he understood too well Sigmund's concept of interesting.

let's go said he not too far said she what's too far said he where you are said she) —e. e. cummings

We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.

Generalmente, ésa es la manera en que se escribe la historia, a través de las versiones de los testigos presenciales, que no siempre corresponden a la realidad.

Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone. Tal vez Nacha sólo escuchó las palabras que todos callaron.

Besides, what is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? The truth is not a finite commodity that can be contained within identifiable borders. The truth is messy, riotous, overrunning everything. You can never know the whole truth of anything. And if you could, you would wish you didn't.

she saw imaginatively rather than accurately.

Black and white has more emotion.

And yet: reacting feels involuntary. As long as we're both breathing, we'll probably forever misread each other's faces; second-guess and misinterpret each other's thoughts, feelings, and motives in the worst possible way.

Pretend I asked, now answer the question...

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

I thought about it for another minute, and then said, "Okay." "Now that's an okay that really means okay, not that okay that women use when it means everything but okay." I had to laugh then, because he was absolutely right.

law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.

nudity meant just without clothes on, neither good nor bad.

This was the second time I'd asked about his wife. I seemed to be speaking English, but perhaps my questions were really Swahili and I just didn't realize it.

the law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.