Quotes About Ambiguity

The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

sometimes it's hard to know what to do.

I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

I remember your saying: make it or break it. neither happened and it won't.

love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat

Stanley was right. I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren't quite sure why. Football

And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.

I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren't quite sure why.

and this being mixed in with a minor intellectualism confused me somewhat

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

So there I was: neither an intellectual, an artist; nor did I have the saving roots of the common man. I hung like something labeled in between, and I guess, yes, that is the beginning of insanity.

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.

No estoy loco, pero tampoco estoy cuerdo.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

He had long since decided there was little usefulness in speculating much on what a day will bring. It led a person to the equal errors of being either dreadful or hopeful. Neither, in his experience, served to ease your mind.

every act, object and statement that man perceives is meaningful (even "nothing") and […] the frontiers of meaning are always, momentarily, in state of collapse and paradox.

Where do you want to go? was his responce. I don't know Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

Information is that which defies expectation.

Jim can't tell if he was screaming from fear or yodeling in exhilaration.