Interpretation Quotes

"There is no truth Only perception" "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "There is no outside-text" "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were" "History is written by the victors" "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "The victory of wit over philosophy always comes down to the victory of meaning over fact. " "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true" "Every thing possible to be believed is an image of the truth" "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way" "Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems" "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" "Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed" "The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic" "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth" "Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them."