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Quotes About Confusion

And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.
~ Philip K. Dick
Hallelujah," Rybys said. "What?" he
~ Philip K. Dick
Ruh, farkl? renklerdeki ???klar boyunca rasgele hareket ediyordu, her renk farkl? tür bir rahmi, farkl? bir yeniden doÄŸuÅŸu simgeliyordu. Bütün kötü rahimlerden uzak durup sonunda aç?k beyaz ????a gelmek göçmüÅŸ ruhun iÅŸiydi. Bunu Nicholas'a anlatmaya karar verdim, çünkü kafas? zaten yeterince kar???kt?.
~ Philip K. Dick
And when I gave my phone number the last two times I gave it wrong—another number. And to me the weirdest thing of all: at night phone numbers swim up into my mind that I never heard of before. I'm afraid to call them; I don't know why.
~ Philip K. Dick
Exchange between Arctor and Barris: "Now that my Olds is laid up indefinitely, Arctor said, "I've decided I should sell it and buy a Henway. What's a Henway? Barris said. (…) About three pounds, Arctor said.
~ Philip K. Dick
We have a hodge-podge of leaks in reality.
~ Philip K. Dick
He's getting worse. Reading aloud to no one messages that don't exist and in foreign tongues.
~ Philip K. Dick
Ele se sentiu, de uma hora para outra, como uma mariposa inútil, agitando-se diante da vidraça da realidade, vendo-a de modo indistinto pelo lado de fora. - ubik
~ Philip K. Dick
We're being paid to sit here and do nothing. So we feel all upset. First we stand up, then we sit down. We blame it on the heat, but it's really because we don't know what to do with ourselves.
~ Philip K. Dick
I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on a piece of paper, the algebraic kind that you hope will help you think more clearly. When I finished doing that, I was more confused than ever. Algebra was never my strong subject.
~ Philip Kerr
Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act. To be myself, I have to put on an act, Ginny said bitterly. What's that mean? It means I don't know who I am.
~ Philip Pullman
Oh, this was confusing. Mrs. Coulter was so kind and wise, whereas Lyra had actually seen the Master trying to poison Uncle Asriel. Which of them did she owe most obedience to?
~ Philip Pullman
Then she felt dizzy. This was all impossible, and it was all happening.
~ Philip Pullman
Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.
~ Philip Roth
I couldn't imagine anything that could have made Coleman more of a mystery to me than this unmasking. Now that I knew everything, it was as though I knew nothing
~ Philip Roth
War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night
~ Philip Roth
what I saw was my bewildered father, alone on the darkening street-corner by the park that used to be our paradise, thinking himself and all of Jewry gratuitously disgraced and jeopardized by my inexplicable betrayal.
~ Philip Roth
Was she impersonating someone, acting from a script prepared beforehand? Or was I dealing with a person who could not be dealt with because she was mad?
~ Philip Roth
No one gets through unmarked by brooding, grief, confusion, and loss. Even those who had it all as kids sooner or later get the average share of misery, if not sometimes more.
~ Philip Roth
Llega un momento, como me llegó a mí hace unos meses, en que se halla uno en tal estado de desamparo y confusión, que no logra comprender lo que otrora resultaba obvio: por qué hago lo que hago, por qué vivo donde vivo, por qué comparto mi vida con quien la comparto.
~ Philip Roth
It was the end of all understanding.
~ Philip Roth
So basically they're just standing around, as people will, their luggage a vivid jumble at their feet, kind of bogged down, tired, with that so-near-and-yet type of tension, a sense of somewhere definite they must be at by a definite time, but no clear consensus on how to get there. Since they're late. As Dr. Ambrose might venture to observe, they're figuratively unsure about where to go from here .
~ David Foster Wallace
That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free.
~ David Gates
Well, it's about you and Mom. Chigger and I were talking-and well, I mean-you are kidnapping us, aren't you, Dad?
~ David Gerrold