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A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
shadow of authority
I'm going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I'll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!"
"Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox.
"What?" Tia asked.
"That was a really good metaphor.
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]
So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
the relations were of a
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
Often books speak of books.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.
A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.
Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor,
I stepped out of the bathroom in a black dress and hot pink heels.
America whistled. "Hot damn, Mama!"
I smiled in appreciation, and Travis held out his hand. "Nice legs."
"Did I mention that it's a magic razor?"
"I don't think it's the razor," he smiled, pulling me out the door.
Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
He flaunted obnoxious feats of memory by quoting page numbers and passages back in class and correcting his teachers on their text citations.14 "You forgot the comma," he said to one.15
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
I transform fiction into memory.
will scour the Internet nightly for mentions of any keywords you
For the answer you seek,
Look up.
Note on Interviews and Attribution
The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
Incontrovertible truth.
We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.
I am a question mark aimed at an answer.
[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.
CHAPTER I - M. MYRIEL
Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.
I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world.
[From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]
There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
concerning whose
Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
Brandon's going to talk to a B-O-Y, and -"
"What?"
"That's your assignment tonight. You converse in public with a boy. You've heard of them, right? They're like girls, but with penises?
this is a book about somethingBook-- C.s. Lewis
What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.
The library is testimony to truth and to error,
Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.
The project I did last year was on Jeffrey Dahmer,' I said. 'He was a cannibal who kept severed heads in his freezer'
'I remember now,' said Max, his eyes darkening. 'Your posters have me nightmares. That was boss.'
'Nightmares are nothing,' I said. 'Those posters gave me a therapist.
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
With access to everything, we can dabble without really knowing. I am not bemoaning a diminishing awareness of references, but it's easier than ever to be divorced from both provenance and predecessors, to essentially be a cultural tease. The
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.
One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.
You're either reading a book or you're not.
establishing the
At some point all of this is going to catch up with me," I said.
"What is?"
"Gay, boyfriend, job loss, career in the toilet, gay, criminals in my house, criminals in my bed."
"You said the gay thing twice."
"It deserves double billing.
Conclusion The
Chapter 11 Bobby Bell
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy. It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex. She managed to swallow on a throat wildly dry. "Music," she murmured.
"My phone. In my pants. Don't care."
"Oh. Not angels."
"No. Def Leppard.
Geez, woman, you're gonna dislocate my jaw."
"Well, don't do that in public, you brute!"
"Wow." Renfield adjusted his glasses. He was sitting across the table from them with a book. "I feel so privileged, being an audience to this-"
"Shut up, Ren," the other two said simultaneously.
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.
I love you. I love you without the memories. I love you right now."
Isabelle said in a calm voice, "I know."
Simon stared at her. "Was that...," he said slowly. "Was that a Star Wars reference? Because if it was, I would like to declare my love all over again.
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.
I don't need to always quote others because I actually have original thoughts".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
(...) there is no truth except truth in relation, and heavenly relation is composed of wheels in motion, tilting axes, turning dials; it is a clockwork orchestration that alters every minute, never repeating, never still.
I am deeply indebted to many people who have shared their love of and insights into these remarkable books with me over the years, none more than Jessica Matthews of George Mason University.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN "Y
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
there something you know and
A Voice from I Don't Know WhereVoice-- Mary Oliver
[redacted: no source given].
Turn to page 394.
If you share bad thing to the people,
they redouble it by referring to you.
Recognition is a fire ; you can burn or find warmth and comfort by it.
I see. Is Jim with you now?"
"Yes, he is. We're having rough sex. You're interrupting.
"What are you doing here?"
"Looking for Jim in your bed."
"He isn't here."
"I see that.
The answer almost unmanned me.
Books always speak of other books.
Volume I Chapter I Introductory
Invaluable ... the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
A source is always its own will.
You're a library of me.
You see, someone in this kingdom has a very dangerous enemy, and I need to know who it is." "Who? This someone or the enemy?" asked the general. "Oh, I know who the enemy is," Rezkin replied. "Then, who is the enemy?" Marcum asked. "Me," Rezkin stated.
Books, the children of the brain.
Germ of endearment
When it works, what you get is not a collection of references, quotes, allusions, and cribs but a whole, seamless thing, both familiar and new: a record of the consciousness that was busy falling in love with those moments in the first place.
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.
What? Who? You can't throw around pronouns like that without their antecedents if you want people to follow you.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.
I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
[An example of misattribution:]
If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.
- Mark Twain