#interpretation

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#free #interpretation #less #make #more

The title of the movie is open to interpretation. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#movie #open #title

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence. ↗

— Jeremiah Day

#i #interpretation #less #live #longer

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#corruption #cutting #done #fancy #flights

I never felt interpretation was my job. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#i #interpretation #job #never

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult. ↗

— Garth Stein

#difficult #interpretation #moving-parts #presentation #art

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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