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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

Tags: art, art criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship, revenge, intellectual

Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading. She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, Here, sweetheart. Let me get that.Zoe recoiled. Her eyes flashed murderously.Brother, Artemis chided. You do...

Rick Riordan

Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading. She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, Here, sweetheart. Let me get that.Zoe recoiled. Her eyes flashed murderously.Brother, Artemis chided. You do...

Rick Riordan

Tags: artemis, zoe nightshade

You want this?'I raised my gaze, gasping at the dark hunger in his expression. My mind blanked. Want his body? How could I not? He was pure temptation. 'I meant this,' he held up my bag, 'but I could...

Kresley Cole

You want this?'I raised my gaze, gasping at the dark hunger in his expression. My mind blanked. Want his body? How could I not? He was pure temptation. 'I meant this,' he held up my bag, 'but I could...

Kresley Cole

Tags: evie

When I see memories, I see the past.When I see thoughts, I see the present.When I see intentions, I see the future.When I see regret, I see the past.When I see hope, I see the present.When I see expec...

Matshona Dhliwayo

When I see memories, I see the past.When I see thoughts, I see the present.When I see intentions, I see the future.When I see regret, I see the past.When I see hope, I see the present.When I see expec...

Matshona Dhliwayo

Tags: african philosopher, african philosophy, enlightenment, future, guru, matshona dhliwayo, philosopher, philosophy quotations, sage

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

Mike Carey & Peter Gross

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

Mike Carey & Peter Gross

Tags: frankenstein, monsters

Wait, I repeated.The darkness vanished, leaving Rhysand in his solid form as he grinned. Yes?I raised my chin as high as I could manage. Just two weeks?Just two weeks, he purred, and knelt before me....

Sarah J. Maas

Wait, I repeated.The darkness vanished, leaving Rhysand in his solid form as he grinned. Yes?I raised my chin as high as I could manage. Just two weeks?Just two weeks, he purred, and knelt before me....

Sarah J. Maas

Tags: deal, faerie, feyre, high fae, high lord, price, rhysand

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...

Rebecca McNutt

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...

Rebecca McNutt

Tags: cell phone, depressing, digital age, future, phone, sad, text

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora...

Chris Prentiss

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora...

Chris Prentiss

Tags: addiction treatment, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, alcoholism, change, chris prentiss, healing, healing abuse, holistic treatment, life improvement

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Neil Gaiman

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Neil Gaiman

Tags: opening lines

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

James C. Scott

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

James C. Scott

Tags: archeology, civilization, garbage

The gift blesses the giver.

Hilary Mantel

The gift blesses the giver.

Hilary Mantel

Tags: an occult history of britain, gifts, thomas cromwell

The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its power every day, contributing crucially...

Daniel C. Dennett

The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its power every day, contributing crucially...

Daniel C. Dennett

Tags: darwinism, dennett, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, science, scientific theory

That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky fo...

J.D. Salinger

That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky fo...

J.D. Salinger

Tags: holden, j d salinger, salinger, the catcher in the rye

She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a we...

Debbie Macomber

She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a we...

Debbie Macomber

Tags: contemporary romance, snow

She is very wonderful, Bertie. She is not one of these flippant, shallow-minded, modern girls. She is sweetly grave and beautifully earnest. She reminds me of - what is the name I want?

P. G. Wodehouse

She is very wonderful, Bertie. She is not one of these flippant, shallow-minded, modern girls. She is sweetly grave and beautifully earnest. She reminds me of - what is the name I want?

P. G. Wodehouse

Tags: jeeves

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

Cassandra Clare

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

Cassandra Clare

Tags: jace herondale, jace lightwood, jace wayland

Now that was a kiss, Grandma Frida said from the doorway behind me. I jumped. How long have you been there?Long enough. That man means business. All my words tried to come out at once. I don’t . . . w...

Ilona Andrews

Now that was a kiss, Grandma Frida said from the doorway behind me. I jumped. How long have you been there?Long enough. That man means business. All my words tried to come out at once. I don’t . . . w...

Ilona Andrews

Tags: nevada baylor

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God H...

Hermann Hesse

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God H...

Hermann Hesse

Tags: hermann hesse, human beings, novel, religion, story

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

Mario Puzo

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

Mario Puzo

Tags: don, godfather, mario, michael, puzo

NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder’s warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her he...

Joyce Carol Oates

NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder’s warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her he...

Joyce Carol Oates

Tags: age difference, joyce carol oates
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