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We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

Anne Bogart

Artist, Order, Tasks

Anne Bogart (2003). “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”, p.19, Routledge

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I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

Joseph Kosuth

Language, Explaining

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Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

Ben Goertzel

Emotion, Language, Music Is

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I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

Jamaica Kincaid

Husband, Affair, Feels

"Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."

Jamaica Kincaid

Writing, White, Black

"Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.

Charles Hampden-Turner

Communication, Book, What If

Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.

Benjamin Stone

Love Is, Thinking, I Can

"Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art.

Janine Antoni

Art, Thinking, Ideas

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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

Freeman Dyson

Science, Weather, Meteorology

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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Jeffery Deaver

Stories, Draws, Day Life

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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

Jackie DeShannon

Kings, Thinking, Rocks

Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

David Crosby

Thinking, People, Important

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Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Armstrong Williams

Prayer, Benefits, Patient

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How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

John Cheever

Sex, Nuts, Tire

John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

J. Milton Hayes

House, Scene, Spots

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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction, Literature, Bosnians

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The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.

Russell Peters

Dream, Believe, Opportunity

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It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

Alexander Woollcott

Marriage, Bed, Companion

Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Anna C Salter

Realization, Bears, Threatening

Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

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In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

Ben Mezrich

Book, Together, Path

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And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

Joseph Campbell

Hurt, Writing, Perfect

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

Mo Yan

Writing, Feet, People

"Chinese writer Mo Yan, known for bawdy, sprawling tales, wins Nobel literature prize". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2012.

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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.

Patrick Rothfuss

Writing, Thinking, Legacy

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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

Gabourey Sidibe

Wise, Tree

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Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Thia Megia

Heart, Singing, Stage

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