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"Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all."
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"Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka."
"They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words."
"One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?"
"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."
"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."
"What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home."
"All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you."
"Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them 'god for us' or 'bad for us.' The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination - we do."
"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
"In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting."
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"To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done."
"Don't ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that."
"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain."
"People who made their dreams come true didn't simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream."
"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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