words that inspire and challenge, that get under your skin, sort of like the irritating grain of sand inside your swimsuit

Ours is an era that distrusts language, that fears figures of speech, and especially what could be called figures of thinking— ideas and associations that beget ideas, that link to other links in culture rather than in hypertext,ideas that are regarded as dangerous because they are not end-stopped.

Marjorie Garber

Process, the energy in being, the refusal of finality, which is not the same thing as the refusal of completeness, sets art, all art, apart from the end-stop world that is always calling “Time Please.”

Jeanette Winterson

The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—which you had thought unique and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.

Alan Bennett

I bow to scientific fact until 5 o'clock. After that I may have other ideas.

Andry Avinoff, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Director (1926-45)

The fact that history does not record a fact doesn't mean the fact did not exist.

José Saramago, The Double (2002)

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Don Quixote

Image: “buzz words” from Thank you M Barthes by Steven Hadley

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