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This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we… — Genesis P-Orridge
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught… — Maria Jeritza
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when… — Ansel Adams
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at… — Minor White
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was… — Arthur C. Clarke
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. — Lee Strasberg
Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The… — Elliott Smith
If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort,… — Jose Limon
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious. — Eugene Ionesco
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.... — Eugene Ionesco
With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a… — PJ Harvey
It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth.… — Valentina Tereshkova
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. — A B Yehoshua
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used… — Ingrid Newkirk
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they… — Heraclitus
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. — Garry Winogrand

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