#meanings

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#language #meanings #words

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #life #love #meanings #paulo-coelho

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#deep #effort #emerge #experience #explain

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves. ↗

— John M. Ford

#every #forth #ideas #meanings #out

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. ↗

— William Greider

#covering #drama #essentially #events #human

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#asking #audience #deconstruction #fashion #gratuitous

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#art #deep #meanings #misery #one thing

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#always #comic #different #each #events