Quotes About Interpretation

I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel] 'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.' 'Since when?

Peor que los gritos? ?Mucho peor ?dijo, asintiendo con la cabeza?. Mira, en una discusión, al menos, sabes qué es lo que está pasando. O tienes una idea. El silencio es... Puede ser cualquier cosa. Es tan... ?Tan ensordecedor... ?terminé por él [...]. ?Exactamente.

No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life -Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key

And all that pink. It's like a giant vagina in there.

you draw (the painter)

Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.

He will never marry her, the translator tells me, after we have been driving in the dark for a few minutes. Yes, I say, but he can love her.

We like stories that are false and seem true (realist novels), that are true and seem false (true crime), that are false and seem false (dragons and superheroes), or that are true and seem true, but it's harder to agree on what that is.

I guess people can be wrong and right at the same time.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

Being right was largely a matter of explanations.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

You were lucky even then to make yourself understood. And this happened over and over and over with everyone you met. You had to translate and translate, explain and explain, back and forth, and it was the punishment of hell itself not to understand or be understood, not to know the crazy from the sane, the wise from the fools, the young from the old or the sick from the well.

She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, "I never see trees like that." He told her, "No, ma'am, but don't you wish you could?" This could be a variation on "Ye have eyes and see not," an aesthete's version of it.

Even in a few minutes' conversation, do you realize how many times what you feel is converted before it comes out as what you say?

As a man sees, so he is." The world as it appears to you classifies your mind.

Reading Sartre on the Middle East, I wonder whether he really knows what he is saying.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions.

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.

If you can't imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.

Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is.