Quotes About Ambiguity

He let the pieces of the napkin flutter to the floor and said something strange about words being good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

It's like moving through a delicious fog.

I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

And he no longer cared to tell which were things done and which dreamt.

Who is it? said the boy. I dont know. Who is anybody?

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get. I'll see you.

We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.

I think sometimes some people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.

Me preguntaba de qué soy profesor. Bien, yo profeso la oscuridad. Esa noche disfrazada de día. Y ahora, le deseo lo mejor pero debo irme.

I couldn't trust you with it. To do something with it. I don't want anybody talking about me. To say where I was or what I said when I was there. I mean, you could talk about me maybe. But nobody could say that it was me. I could be anybody. I think in times like these the less said the better. If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we'd have something to talk about. But we're not. So we don't.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted. . . .Hell, I dont know what I want. Never did. . . . When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I tink you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Nadie sabe para quien trabaja.

If you dont know what life is—and you dont—then I'm not sure how you would characterize the absence of it.

The simplest undertaking is predicated upon a future that has no warrant.

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get.

When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.

I dont want anybody talking about me. To say where I was or what I said when I was there. I mean, you could talk about me maybe. But nobody could say that it was me. I could be anybody. I think in times like these the less said the better. If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we'd have something to talk about. But we're not. So we dont.

If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.

Suppose you was someplace that you didnt know where it was. The real thing you wouldnt know was where someplace else was. Or how far it was. It wouldnt change nothin about where you was at.

What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.

I was a born classicist and my heroes were never saints but killers.

We might have very different notions about the nature of the oncoming night. But as darkness descends does it matter?

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