All Quotes By Tag: Paradox
“But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.”
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“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”
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“how does she know it’s the right room?’ wondered Descant.Oh, I don’t know; mabye it’s the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it’s the deafening howl of the temporal winds.’ said Mervall. Descant nodded.’You could be right, brother. And don’t think I don’t know sarcasm when I hear it.”
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful. ”
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“Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I’ve always carried about is rather more vulnerable. Yet I must cling with all my might to … my own soul; must hold on to its mischievous, iconoclastic, out-of-step clown-instincts, no matter how great the storm. And if that plunges me into contradiction and paradox, so be it; I’ve lived in that messy ocean all my life. I’ve fished in it for my art. This turbulent sea was the sea outside my bedroom window in Bombay. It is the sea by which I was born, and which I carry within me wherever I go.”
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“I have to go,” I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?”
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“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
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“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.”
“The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
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“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
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“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.”[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
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“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
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“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
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“You are never too old to become younger!”
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