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I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a…

— Otto Penzler

“And while we may never be able to wrap our minds around the thing itself, it is by the power of a story that…

— Casey Fisher

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…

— Thomas Malthus

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

— John Fowles

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

— Ian Hacking

In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing,…

— David Richo

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,…

— Maggie Nelson

The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is…

— Margaret M. Lock

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come…

— Laura Hillenbrand

When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do.…

— Margaret Wertheim

:)So Micayla didn't quite understand the meaning of the word paradox, so like most things I struggle to understand or make sense of I…

— Micayla Ludick Basson

The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton