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Interpretive Quotes

James Joyce quote: "Interpretations of interpretations interpreted."
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. James Joyce
Interpreting myself, I always read. Myself into my books. I clearly need. Some help. But all who climb on their own way. Carry my image, too, into the breaking day. Friedrich Nietzsche
Susan Sontag quote: "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. Susan Sontag
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. Jhumpa Lahiri
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretatio? for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place. Edward Said
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. Michel de Montaigne
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag
There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If... William Golding
Michel de Montaigne quote: "We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret..."
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. Michel de Montaigne
Kenneth Burke quote: "We not only interpret the character of events... we may also..."
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. Kenneth Burke
I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way. Diana Krall
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. Umberto Eco
Charlotte Bronte quote: "The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an..."
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. Charlotte Bronte
f 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. Diana Wynne Jones
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. W. H. Auden

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