Point Interpretive System

Famous quotes containing the words point, interpretive and/or system:

    “The women’s liberation movement at this point in history makes the American Communist Party of the 1930s look like a monolith.”
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    “The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
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    “Loving feels lonely in a violent world,
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