Quotes About Ambiguity

Finnigin found himself outside on the street, his vision disturbed by swirling motes of light and shade.

She appeared to be confused as if Finnigin's questions had thrown her into a state where she herself had begun to ask questions.

All he saw of the house, as Taropat carried him through its dim-lit rooms, were picture fragments: a high-backed chair: a tilted painting of a frowning face: the gleam of a crystal ball on a cluttered table; a tattered cloth hung from the ceiling; cracked pain on the walls beside the stairs.

She saw his face properly for the first time. It wasn't cruel, but it wasn't kind either. It was dark and terrible and beautiful.

He couldn't understand the woman. She twisted and turned like an eel.

The serpent has the potential to be used for good or evil. It represents the creative force or building blocks of the universe, which is dualistic.

He could see little of the man, other than the shadow of a face, dark garments, the long, expressive hands. His black boots were polished to a high, silken lustre, the feet crossed at the ankles.

A true magus understands he has to dance on both sides of the coin. Utter goodness is as bad as pure evil.

As I said, he danced on both sides of the coin; master on intrigue and cunning and devoted lover to a damaged man.

It was as if she needed and wanted something from Ays, but would not speak plainly about it, or even off signals of a definite nature. He was sure it wasn't simply love or protection she was after, but something more profound, which she was perhaps unable to define herself.

I am their secret, but then the humans in the Strangeling have many secrets.

As the stage lamps were turned up, these shapes were revealed to be pieces of scenery, mere suggestions of forms. To me, it became rocky land, devoid of moisture.

There were too many unexplained noises, too many echoes, too many vacilliating shadows.

Othman prowled the lanes of Little Moor, dragging his intentions behind him like smoke.

There was something repellant about the face before her, yet also seductive.

Everyone carried guns. It was difficult to determine who was male and who was female.

Perhaps there was just too much information for him to interpret, and the important symbols were lost in a confusing maelstorm of ancient memories. Or perhaps the fault lay within himself.

How could someone be so familar, yet a complete stranger?

More or less," that most ambiguous of phrases, pervades many of the conversations that comprise this book, reflecting, perhaps, the ambiguity of attitude toward The Job. Something more than Orwellian acceptance, something less than Luddite sabotage. Often the two impulses are fused in the same person.

It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so.

Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water--I couldn't have guessed what emotion it was. "I'll miss you," he said.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.