Quotes About Nuance

We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. We ought to, but we don't—or at least, we don't quite as readily. But the more you do, the more quickly you can recognize the feeling when it comes around again, and hopefully you won't need to stare as long.

Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

The answer to that is complicated." "Give me the short version." "The short version is 'Yes, but.' The slightly longer version is 'No, and.' Which version would you like?

Most people don't read the details. It's the details that astonish me.

Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

appreciating the upside doesn't negate the hazards.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

There is always something Right in something that is Wrong and something Wrong in something that is Right.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

He was not a dark man, but not light either. His color was a nebulous thing, so like his voice, which was too low to be weak but too reedy to be commanding. In a town that preferred things black or white, grayness such as his was not welcome.

No es lo mismo ser racista en blanco y negro —un inglés en la India, un belga en el Congo— que ser racista con tal despliegue de matices; se necesita mucha más atención, más mala leche, más interés en el asunto.

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.

There are no pure people.

A ver short chapter with a long title, in which not very much happens.

There was more to her than a flat line of mild to moderate depression, spiced up with occasional flourishes of despair.

were used (or misused) is the difference between