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"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."
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"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?"
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
"They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words."
"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."
"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."
"What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home."
"I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they're interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees."
"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
"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."
"In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: 'I wish you luck.' I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more."
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"Wild Nights " Wild Nights!Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury!Futile " the winds "To a heart in port "Done with the compass "Done with the chart!Rowing in Eden "Ah, the sea!Might I moor " Tonight "In thee!"
"There is a pain " so utter " It swallows substance up " Then covers the Abyss with Trance " So Memory can step Around " across " opon it " As one within a Swoon " Goes safely " where an open eye " Would drop Him " Bone by Bone."
"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
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