Quotes About Ambivalence

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen // Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen

Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made vice presidents who were intended neither for the party nor by the Lord to be presidents," he writes in his journal before turning out the lights well past midnight.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

but, being unable to decide yes, she decided no.

I'm not looking for happiness. But I'm not looking for an ending either. pg. 544

Sometimes I wanna kill, sometimes I wanna die, sometimes I wanna destroy, sometimes I wanna cry; sometimes I could get even, sometimes I could give up, sometimes I could give, sometimes I never give a f*ck.

Desiderava al tempo stesso morire e vivere a Parigi.

Elle souhaitait à la fois mourir et habiter Paris.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

My favourite outdoor activity is going back inside.

NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of the system.

He wasn't proud of his past, but he wasn't unproud of it either; it just existed, and there wasn't any point in fetishizing it.

Myron lay sprawled next to a knee-knockingly gorgeous brunette clad only in a Class-B-felony bikini, a tropical drink sans umbrella in one hand, the aqua clear Caribbean water lapping at his feet, the sand a dazzling white powder, the sky a pure blue that could only be God's blank canvas, the sun a soothing and rich as a Swedish masseur with a snifter of cognac, and he was intensely miserable.

On the one hand, this whole crazy day still felt like a no-harm-no-foul situation. She could leave here unscathed. On the other, she kept looking over her shoulder, as though she were being followed.