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Interpretation Quotes

"The victory of wit over philosophy always comes down to the victory of meaning over fact. "

"The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic"

"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."

"Translation is the art of failure"

"I can't control how people are going to interpret my work."

"The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious"

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood"

"What we see is not what we see but what we are."

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"

"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them"

"Reality is largely negotiable."

"Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them"

"You can't just take something, put it in a different context and expect it to be funny"

"People are looking for stories in everything."

"History is almost always written by the victors"

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