Quotes About Ambiguity

That my agency is riven with paradox does not mean it is impossible. It means only that paradox is the condition of its possibility.

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from the umber

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Can we be just friends?, she asked tentatively. I thought we were friends, he said. You know what I mean. I choose not to know what you mean. How can you choose not to know what you know? she asked sulkily. How can you choose not to talk about what you feel? If I don't talk about it, I don't feel it. Fine. Then let's not talk about just being friends. -- Looking for Mr. Goodbar

I no longer knew how to distinguish between the sweet light of tenderness and the blackness of sensuality

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

This place is like the back entrance to a black cow.

It is a world of words to the end of it, / In which nothing solid is its solid self.

The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully.

The terms 'justice' is ambiguous and dangerous, and in its name more harm than good is done to humanity.

How do you demonstrate a love for God and others in the heat of a contract negotiation in which you perceive the other party to be unreasonable? The Bible gives you no clear-cut answer. God designed the ambiguity in which you are forced to live in order to keep you trusting in Him.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Aporia is a form of it.

I could never get a clue what she wants, but she's almighty persistent, I'll tell you that.

Later I will systemize my impossible subject, but for the moment I want to enjoy a tentative movement between its different chambers. I am not certain which are important and which are extraneous. Nor am I certain whether this topic is one that I have the strength to pursue.

Sometimes I felt like I was running from somewhere, but other times I felt like I was running to somewhere. (178)

In my view just when you think you have it all hanging clear enter a blue ballon off-stage left hammering

Just because you're fighting evil doesn't mean you're good. And just because you're doing evil doesn't mean you're bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It's all shades of gray.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really.