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I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear.If you have a message that really needs to b — Doug Stanhope
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or — Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home. — Will Advise
On the one hand we need the image of "the text" in order to focus on anything at all; on the other hand we use the metap — Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Students didn't even read books anymore, thought Arthur. They dispensed with design and layout and cover art and illustr — Charlie Lovett, The Lost Book of the Grail
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal educat — Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through — Lauro Martines, Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence
You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours. — Dennis Prager
On the latter point, it was sometimes noted that Christians gathered together under the cloak of darkness, calling one a — Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and "but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is do — Rebecca McNutt
I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced,” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorc — Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, t — Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text. — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context any — Erik Pevernagie
How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before — Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes
How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digita — Rebecca McNutt
I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creas — Dominic Riccitello
I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner c — Katja Michael, She Came at Dawn
After you've spent four years kissing somebody's perineum, the subtext talks louder than words. — Steve Kluger, Almost Like Being in Love
You know, Junie, you're fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich. ...The thing is, if m — Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home