Quotes About Contrast

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

I hunger and thirst so for a bed on the ground that, once freed, I don't believe I can ever go into New York chains again. What a problem-- to have a primeval soul and one's home in New York!

He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person...

You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.

His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.

But the romantic atmosphere only heightened his feeling of icy fatness.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

a break in the prairie, pulling back the ground cover to reveal the stark

For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda

There would never be room for an onigiri in a fruits basket.

It's true that this world isn't enveloped in light. But...there's more to it than that. It isn't all darkness. There's more to it than that.

But it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin.

Reality always seemed pale in comparison with the stark beauty of fantasy.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.

Now ... this" idea: the phenomenon whereby the reporting of a horrific event—a rape or a five-alarm fire or global warming—is followed immediately by the anchor's cheerfully exclaiming "Now ... this," which segues into a story about Janet Jackson's exposed nipple or a commercial for lite beer, creating a sequencing of information so random, so disparate in scale and value, as to be incoherent, even psychotic.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles.

We find a place on the lower [sic] East Side," confesses one suburban couple in the genteel pages of the New Yorker: Ludlow Street. No one we know would think of living here. No one we know has ever heard of Ludlow Street.

From my first day inside, I recognized that this odd coupling-housing leprosy patients with federal convicts- would make a great story

Black and white, good and evil, is just a way to simplify life and make it easier for people to deal with. People love it too; that's why so many people go to church on a Sunday.

Out of the blue and into the black

Over succeeding millennia, this contrast between king-ridden Asia and enterprising, individualist Europe hardened into a trope,

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.