Quotes About Interpretation

African peoples were referred to as black long after the word made its appearance in the English language, so it makes no sense to retroactively impose racist connotations on to its everyday usage, and if you do, you're going to drive yourself mad and, I'm sorry to say, everyone else with you

threw in quotes he attributed to Derrida and Heidegger for good measure, which he always does when he can't handle a tricky situation

Lord, how come she asking me this now? A colony of ants starts crawling all over my scalp, but I'm too afraid to attack them in case she interprets my discomfort. This is too much. Anything is a big word that can accommodate all things, and every thing, and some thing that, yes, she needs to know eventually, but it ain't easy giving voice to the love that brings shame .

una buena metáfora de lo que pretenden ser los libros: espejos que, a pequeña escala, recogen todos los detalles de un universo.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

Real painter understand with a brush in their hand.

Geschichten, die man versteht, sind nur schlecht erzählt.

Art is never without consequences.

El arte no es un espejo para reflejar la realidad, sino un martillo para darle forma.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

By thinking hard about how this artist sees, I learn more about my own seeing.

The value of a thing always depends upon your point of view.

but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

Sometimes when a person be thinking about one thing it don't mean they is mad about another thing.

We mostly see what we have learned to expect to see.

Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.

Heather didn't understand why Riley kept putting the animal in clothes, either. The practice only made him look crazier, but then again, she'd never been a big proponent of anthropomorphism. To her, animals were just that, nothing more, but nothing less, either.

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.