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Quotes About Ambiguity

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night...
~ Sun Tzu
For that tiny instant, I was every 16-year-old in history, not knowing what the skies foretold about my future.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
There were some things I could never begin to know about.
~ Susan Hill
Angel was different in every way possible. When he looked at her with those cool gray eyes, she had no idea what he was thinking. That was kind of fun, She just hoped it didn't mean he was a serial killer.
~ Susan Mallery
like a castle and from the other, it seemed to be a villa. The
~ Susan Mallery
25/12/48 É muito provável que ao lembrar-me disso, um dia, eu ache muita graça. Assim como houve um tempo em que eu era religiosa de um modo neurótico e aterrorizado e achava que um dia seria católica, agora acho que tenho tendências lésbicas (com que relutância escrevo isto) –
~ Susan Sontag
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one – or both. Usually both. –
~ Susan Sontag
A completely open, unpredictable future makes me horribly anxious… It's as if I'm supposed to walk through a forest without being allowed to inform myself whether or not it's full of wolves.
~ Susan Sontag
maffle confused. Reet maffled me. It confused me greatly.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all.
~ Susanna Clarke
and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Charlie, there was no special feeling.
~ Joseph Walsh
I noticed you right away." She gave me an approving look. "I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh…sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks…
~ Josh Lanyon
This could be heaven or this could be hell'?" "A lot will depend on the mattress.
~ Josh Lanyon
Did he want to put a cock ring on me or did he fear I wanted to put a wedding ring on him?
~ Josh Lanyon
You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and
~ Josh Lanyon
the fields of learning and performance are an exploration of greyness—
~ Josh Waitzkin
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back.
~ Joy Williams
He wants to apologize but does not know for what. His life has been devoted to apologetics. It is his profession. He is concerned with both justification and remorse. He has always acted rightly, but nothing has ever come of it.
~ Joy Williams
There are certain times where it does not matter If you hear the word yes or the word no in answer to your question, whether you turn left or right, you will reach your destination. Not many but some.
~ Joy Williams
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily diguised as Chaos.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Ignoraba que estaba vacilando entre su verdadero nacimiento y la permanencia en la nada.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
nació en Santa Fe de Bogotá, ciudad esquizofrénica que en adelante se llamará indistintamente Santa Fe o Bogotá e incluso Esa Mierda de Sitio;
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez