"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."

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Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

Bridget Riley

#Reality Quotes #Belief Quotes #Interpretation Quotes

“There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”
“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.”
“Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.”
“So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.”
“For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.”
“The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isnâ€™t a final destination. You donâ€™t one day get there and get to stay.”

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