"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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“If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.”
“We create other people by how we listen to them”
“People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”
“Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'”
“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

Source : "Ideas & Trends: The Bondholders Are Winning; Why America Won't Boom" by Louis Uchitelle, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 1994.
“Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.”

Source : Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”
“If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.”
“For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.”

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 502 (1958)

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