T Quotes
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“The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.”
Source: Fears Unnamed
“The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.”
“The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany.”
“The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the same time. He is unable to solve the conflict within him between sexual demands and moralistic inhibitions. The revolutionary refutes the perverse, unhealthy kind of pleasure, because it is not his kind of pleasure, because it is not the sexuality of the future, but the sexuality which results from the conflict between instinct and morals, the sexuality of authoritarian society, a debased, smutty, pathological sexuality.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.”
Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.”
Source: A composer's world, horizons and limitations
“The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.”
“The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.”
Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays
“The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.”
“The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.”
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”
Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt
“The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.”
“The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.”
“The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.”
“The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.”
Source: Dialogue with an audience
“The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.”
“The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand things about the characters only through the writing process, as I am going along.”
“The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.”
“The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.”
“The reader is lured into believing that every conflict he documents is about the drive for rubber, not the drive against slavery (or inter-tribal vendettas). One of many egregious examples will have to suffice.”
Source: King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.”
“The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.”
Source: Marshall McLuhan: Roles, masks and performances
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted…Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature…we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. [Final passage in "The Death of the Author," in Image-Music-Text, by Roland Barthes, Trans. Stephen Heath (1977)]”
Source: The Death of the Author
“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”
“The reader may be wondering that if compression leads to blue shifting and to a more conscious state, isn’t blue shifting something desirable? Prioritizing blue shifting will bring a person to a higher mental state, but that doesn't automatically equate to higher happiness.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.”
“The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.”
“The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.”
“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years
“The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against the sophistries of those who scorn the starting-point of faith, and allow themselves to be deceived through an unseasonable and misguided love of reason.”
Source: The Trinity
“The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.”
Source: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
“The reader still looking for answers may find it within these seven sections, deeply accumulative in intensity. The answers come when one least expects them: one may miss the whispers of God, for it is within a fraction of a moment in time that a completely new life may be reborn. Yet, even within this significant recognition, we still know that the Holy Spirit inspires even our choices and our most eager efforts. - No Greater Love Than This”
Source: No Greater Love Than This
“The reader wants to be able to see the book as if they are watching a movie.”
“The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.”
“The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.”
“The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.”
“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame?”
Source: Lost in the Funhouse
“The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.”
“The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.”
“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.”
Source: Bully!
“The readers and the hearers like my books,
And yet some writers cannot them digest;
But what care I? for when I make a feast,
I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.”
“The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.”
“The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.”
“The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.”
Source: A Reader on Reading
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”
“The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous
“The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.