74 Quotes About Text
- Author Nicholas Royle
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A text always remains in crucial ways ‘imperceptible’.
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- Author Nicholas Royle
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A text is a ‘fabric of traces’ governed by a logic of the ‘nonpresent remainder’, by what thus figures the impossibility of pure presence, the impossibility of absolute plenitude of meaning or intention.
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- Author Anuradha Bhattacharyya
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In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.
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- Author Altruistic
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Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry
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- Author Jayce O'Neal
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Cellaholics are those who interrupt quality time when they are with you, but rather text, call, and email others who are somewhere else.
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- Author David Chiles
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No Late Messages: It is proper netiquette to send messages within an appropriate time frame. NetworkEtiquette.net
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- Author Hrishikesh Agnihotri
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As much as long conversations, laughter riots and wild meetups are desirable, there's still beauty and satisfaction in knowing via simple text messages that you wish someone well and they wish you back the same.
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- Author Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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..my favourite element hovers beyond the text, in the untranslatable pale space between stanzas, where I sense a female breath lingering on the stairs, still present, somehow, long after the body has hurried onwards to breathe elsewhere.
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- Author David Lodge
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to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing
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