Quotes About Ambivalence

Mi sembra di essere nato storto. Non capisco se non trovo più quello che voglio o se rendo le mie voglie talmente elaborate da rendermi impossibile soddisfarle. Insomma, una specie di alibi del cazzo.

I sat down and found half a dead cigar in the ashtray. I lit it up, took a drag, gagged. Tried it again. Not too bad.

DESPITE THE quiet in his apartment, however, and Edie's salutary presence, he couldn't get anywhere on Breakfast of Champions. Many of the pages had been discarded from the manuscript of Slaughterhouse-Five, and he was trying to salvage them. Even so, Vonnegut thought his new novel was so asinine it embarrassed him.150

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

I've missed proms and things like that, but I didn't really care much about that.

I'm really grateful for 'Gangs... ' but it wouldn't be wrong to say that it was a mixed blessing.

I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'

Well, it's looks like I've a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

Kids love the Hulk, but they're not really sure: 'Is he a monster or is he a hero?'

The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the most powerful is need.

Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

I don't think I've ever felt more disoriented and alone. Or more thoroughly, serenely, at home. Every true romantic will know what I mean.

Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem.

Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in leaving life or living it.

The uncharming qualities of capitalism are its middle ground.

As I said to that policeman, I don't know. I've

Cine poate spune cu exactitate unde se termina culoarea violet si unde incepe cea portocalie intr-un curcubeu? Vedem deslusit diferentele dintre culori, dar unde anume incep ele dintr-una, in cealalta? La fel se intampla si cu luciditatea si nebunia.

She decided that this kind of waiting - waiting for something good and bad tangled together - should be given its own special name.

Fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always 'A and not A'.

I loved this stuff, bad stuff.

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.