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He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.
Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.
It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily.
The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener.
The virtue of books is to be readable.
I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.Read-- Kurt Cobain
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
I can't see anything
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?
Can be read without any trouble and was probably written without any trouble.
I see words, I read them.
For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.
I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.
A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.
I have looked at it with all possible attention," said Dantes, "and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.
There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.
How well he's read, to reason against reading!
My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
It's some kind of Elvish.I can't read it.
Of course I read Braille, yes.
I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.Read-- Kurt Cobain
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough ... the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling,
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
The medium obscured the message.
Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
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If I can see it, it's a failure
If I were taking notes, they would read: I see something. A shape? I have no idea. It's not exactly the stuff that literary archives are made of.
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;
those with no eyes to read readily are doomed
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!
reading is awsome
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
I'm blind without my glasses.
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.
if all else fails you can read
When we observe the words printed in a book, its paper, seemingly a foot away, is not being perceived--the image, the paper, is the perception.
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.
I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?
If I can make it out, anyone can make it out!Make-- Ronnie Radke
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
I am blind. I am supposed to be retarded.
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.
If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty.
You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
The text is your greatest enemy.
Itch to read, scratch to understand.
It's maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand.
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Of all needs a book has,
the chief need is to be readable.
There were voices on the other side - eldritch voices, the sort of voices that mere typography will remain totally unable to convey until someone can make a linotype machine with echo-reverb and, possibly, a typeface that looks like something said by a slug.
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
The world is full of incomprehensible words
We had been so unlucky. By the time we had finally learnt to read properly, there had been nothing left for us to read.
I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.
Reading can be dangerous.
You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.
I can't see straight. But that's okay.
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
Clearly see you can't see Clear
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.
The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
I just can't read music.
Lettering creates readable art that comes to life, displaying a quirky, whimsical nature.
Humans are easy to read, because what they're not saying speaks volumes.
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
I'm just surprised you can understand it. Is it the picture book edition?
Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.
Practice makes legibility!
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.