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• Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.

  John Crowley

  Book, Journey, Glue

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• What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Patterns, Chaos, Havens

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Running, Brain

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)”, p.279, Delacorte Press

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• There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest." I raised my chin. "I don't love you either." He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. "Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I'm near you is certainly not disinterest." "That doesn't mean it's love." "It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you'll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you're in love.

  Darynda Jones

  Hate, Believe, Love You

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• If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me. And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist.

  Jay Asher

  Writing, Scary, Littles

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

  John Irving

  Tattoo, Men, Giving

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• Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  World, Tools, Visionaries

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Believe, Musical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

  Georges Bataille

  Kids, Sky, Trying

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• As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Echoes, Light

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Watches, Variables

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers, not on the litter." Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Book, Moon

  "The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (The Layers)". Book by Stanley Kunitz, 1978.

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• How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Eye, Sound, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it.

  Richelle Mead

  Writing, Dating, Proposal

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.262, Penguin

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• No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

  Ken Kesey

  Ceramics, Rorschach, Psycho

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.

  Milan Kundera

  Kissing, Avid, Events

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• Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.

  Clive James

  Looks, Unions, Able

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• I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.

  Ruben Santiago-Hudson

  Understanding, Trying, Actors

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• Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Flower, Angel

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 26, 1843.

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• I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.

  Gloria Whelan

  School, Secret, Making Friends

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• Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

  Walter Benjamin

  Learning, Photograph, Illiterate

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• I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

  Carl Lewis

  Believe, Media, Typical

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• I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.

  Serj Tankian

  Humanity, Needs, Done

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• Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

  Frederick Buechner

  Language, Speak, Easy

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• Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

  Robert Wright

  Sex, Understanding, Trying

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

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