Quotes About Nuance

None of these stories are true. All of these stories are true. More than one thing can be true at once.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text

The" thing was the thing that implied the greatest number of other things of the sort he had had to tackle; and it was queer of course, but so it was—the implication here was complete. Not

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.

just because he was insane doesn't mean he was stupid.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

There was, in his mind, no truer measure of stupidity than to imagine that the world could be reduced to two sides

My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.

When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

Grey characters don't only mean broody characters. A totally smitten lover boy can be equally grey if written that way.

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

Because life's dictates did not allow for quick and easy distinctions between right and wrong or good and bad. Choices were made between shades of gray, and there was healing and harm to be weighed on both sides of each.