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And every time we played a gig these record company people would come up to me and Don and say, ‘Van Halen was the last guitar band we’re gonna sign, so you guys should start thinking about listening to the new music that is coming out,
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“What is that additional element? “Stupid” is not just “ignorant.” It is “ignorant” PLUS “arrogant.” Stupid people are ignorant people who are also arrogant about their ignorance.”
― Scum America: The Stupid Factor
― Scum America: The Stupid Factor
“An intense response to a work will have its roots in the capacities and experiences already present in the personality and mind of the reader.”
― Literature as Exploration
― Literature as Exploration
“I don’t think he took a bath very often either. He had a thick Scottish accent so that half the time I couldn’t understand what he was saying. But the worst thing was that as soon as we met”
― Abducted
― Abducted
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”
― Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays
― Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays
“Through the medium of words, the text brings into the reader's consciousness certain concepts, certain sensuous experiences, certain images of things, people, actions, scenes. The special meanings and, more particularly, the submerged associations that these words have for the individual reader will largely determine what the work communicates to him. The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment, and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the peculiar contribution of the text.”
― Literature as Exploration
― Literature as Exploration
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