Quotes About Ambiguity

Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

What comes before and after we know not.

Nothing, however, is certain except uncertainty and there is always interference in the lines of flight.

Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.

Synkronointi: pyytää anteeksi ja vannoa kostoa samanaikaisesti.

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

If I told you I've worked hard to get where I'm at, I'd be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.

makes these thoughts rise from primeval depths. You find yourself fearing what countless ancestors feared before you, ever since the first ambiguous shadow was cast upon a cave mouth's wall. The

Off in the distance, the Ringer watched the Ford Tundra drive off into the night before it disappeared around a bend in the road. There were few lights

I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its mother or if it was like a chigger depositing its larvae underneath the skin of my ankles.

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.

Las personas tal vez consistimos, en suma, tanto en lo que somos como en lo que hemos sido, tanto en lo comprobable y cuantificable y recordable como en lo más incierto, indeciso y difuminado, quizá estamos hechos en igual medida de lo que fue y de lo que pudo ser.

What remains mysterious, or even enigmatic are those two words "nothing more," " pas davantage " in French.

no se sabe muy bien qué hacer con los muertos

los planes que uno se traza no son más que tentativas y pruebas, cartas que se van descubriendo y la mayoría de ellas no salen, no combinan[...] Y si pasan pasan aun uno no las quiera o no pasan aunque las anhele...

De waarheid is nooit glashelder, blijft altijd een warnet. Zelfs als de draden ontrafelt zijn

cada vez hay más zona de sombra. Aunque también haya más iluminada, siempre son más las sombras.

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

In truth, we are all fast and slow, strong and weak, motivated and lazy in a thousand tiny ways throughout our days that the generalizations simply don't capture.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing