"What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment."

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Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

Stanley Fish

#Writing Quotes #Assessment Quotes #World Quotes

“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
“Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith
“Gay People canâ€™t do this. Women shouldnâ€™t be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and youâ€™re attacking my rights.”
“Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day?”
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”

Source : Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
“Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.”
“Itâ€™s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.”

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