Quotes About Ambiguity

Something lurked inside the truth.

Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps." "Sounds like a boring life." "I hope it lasts forever," she said.

What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little.

How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing?

She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you logically to destinations, the unnerved surface of rolling plausibly along.

Sometimes I think everything I've done since those years, everything around me in fact, I don't know if you feel this way but everything is vaguely—what—fictitious.

As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.

You're saying maybe you're taking something that has the side effect of impairing memory." "Either I'm taking something and I don't remember or I'm not taking something and I don't remember. My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium steps.

I moonlight except that there's nothing I'm moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that's out there.

But it will definitely come. Maybe now, maybe never.

We're steeped in gruesomely humorous ambiguity, a spectacle of ridiculous people doing awful things to total fools.

Is it raining," I said, "or isn't it?

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

I have to admit we are mired in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.

It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery.

The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.

I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day, when the sun goes down and the supper is to be cooked. -from The Educational Experience

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They've all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don't know what they're talking about.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

financial advisory may offer "A path to a better future" without realizing that could be confused for a gym, a college, a church, or just about anything else.

Yes, but I don't think it was deliberate. He just didn't get it, that the question was ambiguous and didn't mean that her brother had sex with them." "She did, though?" Brunetti nodded again. "She's much brighter than he is." "Women usually are," Paola said