Quotes About Contrast

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

There is no way on this earth that something so beautiful can come out of something so screwed up. So black-hearted. But somehow it does, and because it's beautiful and I don't want to lose it, and because there is still a part of me that would like to share it, I write it down.

When light walks into a room, the darkness rolls back like a scroll." He paused, his eyes narrowing. "It has to. Darkness can't stand light. And it has no counter for it.

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

expression is always concentrated in the dissonance.

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The old woman dressing a small child for slaughter In a convent's school uniform. The ceiling pale as the flowers. The red parrot screaming in the parrot house.

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.

Her own bedroom, her own bed. Her own yard. Without a restaurant downstairs, or sirens or cops or dead bodies. No fishy garbage fumes, or flumes of mildewing vegetation, no cacophony of five dialects being smashed together, a solid block of sensory overload rising up the dank central corridor of INT. CHINATOWN SRO.

Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

life is a tragedy up close, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

What galleries and museums have to do with a dead man is beyond me. Writing about shit like that in the city we were living in seemed equal to writing about the surf conditions while reporting in the Gaza Strip.

There is something horrible about a flower; This, broken in my hand, is one of those He threw it in just now; it will not live another hour; There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

No, when the herd wanted to take refuge in an idea, it preferred to be blind to that idea's opposite.

He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.

I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It's ridiculous.

Winter in 'Zona is spring Spring is summer Autumn is our winter And summer is Hell.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light," I

I was a pebble. I was a leave. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.