Quotes About Interpretation

Po mome ukusu, ništa nije indiskretnije od posmatranja nekog dok piše: još je indiskretnije videti nekog da ?ita jedva primetno mi?u?i usnama. Markizu de Sadu je nedostajao taj prizor (za njega isuviše blag): uhvatiti eksplozije na usnama onog koji poluglasno ?ita neki tekst u procesu artikulisanja. Ništa od te minule erotike više nije mogu?e: danas su pisanje i ?itanje skrovite prakse.

I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

I always write from experience, whether I've had them or not.

One story, perhaps apocryphal, claims that when Hamilton was asked why the framers omitted the word God from the Constitution, he replied, "We forgot.

They promulgated a view of the Civil War as a righteous cause that had nothing to do with slavery but only states' rights—to which an incredulous James Longstreet once replied, "I never heard of any other cause of the quarrel than slavery.

This doctrine vastly expanded judicial discretion and opened a loophole large enough to tolerate many trusts.

Rockefeller developed an inverted worldview, accusing his critics of exactly the same sins of which they accused him.

Habitually, and perhaps unconsciously, Hubbard would fill this gap—between reality and his interpretation of it—with mythology. This was the source of what some call his genius and others call his insanity. WHEN

Deshaced ese verso, quitadle los caireles de la rima, el metro, la cadencia y hasta la idea misma. Aventad las palabras, y si queda algo todavía, eso será la poesía.

No one talked, but they all said plenty.

There are only two real people in fiction – the storyteller and the listener

There's a difference between hearing and listening. And that's our problem. I doubt if Westwood even knows what he's got. He didn't listen, and his notes don't seem to mean much. It's going to be like picking a lock with spaghetti.

There were pictures on the walls, all of them dime-store prints of Jesus. In all of them Jesus had blue eyes and wore pale blue robes and had long blond hair and a neat blond beard. He looked more like a Malibu surfer than a Jew from two thousand years ago.

perfectly clear. To me, and to

communication is theoretically very difficult. They think we

She looked at her watch. She said, "Why is it when someone says between two hours and four hours it's always nearer four hours than two hours?" "Parkinson's disease," Shorty said. "Work expands to take up as much time as there is." "Law," Patty said. "Not disease. That's when you get the shakes.

Which is what the phrase means these days, I suppose, now that the whole parturition business has been institutionalized.

Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?

And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.

Science is not about what's true. It's about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.

In dealing with history, he added, all sorts of things are possible, but not all possible things are equally probable.

Kirjailija ei tosin minun mielestäni ole taikuri joka hokkus-pokkuskeinoilla tarjoaa hetken paon ankeasta arjesta, vaan pikemminkin hän on hovimestari joka järjestää lukijalleen tapaamisen todellisuuden kanssa. Mutta katsas on rakennettava mielikuvitusta ja sisäisiä näkyjä noudattaen.

At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives.

Make of that what you will.