Garth Stein Quotes

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.