The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. - Roland Barthes

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You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say “dig” with a straight face without referring to the process of using a tool to remove dirt from the ground. )

Roland Barthes

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

Author, Birth, Book, Cost

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Desire, Skins, Language And Power, Fingers, Skin

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Feign, Having, Painting, Reality, Seen

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Mourning, Psychoanalytic, Say, Suffering

. . . language is never innocent.

Innocent, Language

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

Institutions, Meaning, School, Song, Sports, Stereotype

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William P. Young

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection. ” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it. ’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

Hurt, Losses, Pain, Son, Transform, Wrong

Jordan Sonnenblick

America, Man, Men, Referring, Tools, Using

Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Bitterness, Delight, Flower, Heart, Jet, Tortures

Margot Fonteyn

I explained it when I danced it.

Dance, Danced, Dancing, Explained

Sallie Krawcheck

The truth is, if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well - living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life - is 0%.

Full, Income, Living, Retirement, Saving