74 Quotes About Text
- Author Gerard de Nerval
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Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.
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- Author Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
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She told you to G.T.F.O. over text????
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- Author Maria Popova
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Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.
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- Author Nina Freudenberger
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Although he denies having a photographic memory, he admits that "when I'm looking for a line I've read, I tend to remember the place on the page, its relationship to the rest of the text.
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- Author Diana Athill
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How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.
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- Author Petronius
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Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?
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- Author Vikrmn
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Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.
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