When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.
Salman RushdieTag: perception reading books writing authors publishing metamorphosis books-and-authors books-and-reading published-books
The truth is helpless when up against perception
Zack W. VanTag: life truth perception philosophy zack-w-van
You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.
Stieg LarssonTag: life perception time mortality life-and-death life-philosophy
Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.
Lionel SuggsTag: truth perception way-of-living
The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.
Lionel SuggsTag: perception reality illusion
Yeah, I'm Governor, Jack, and the trouble with governors is they think they got to keep their dignity. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.
Robert Penn WarrenTag: perception pride dignity
With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.
Helen OyeyemiTag: perception
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.
Rainer Maria RilkeTag: art perception creativity creation self-knowledge aesthetics viewing
Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.
Jack ProvonshaTag: perception perspective views
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.
Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.
Tag: perception youth arrogance aspirations entitlement ambitions
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