I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land. — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“maybe love itself is a paradox, a figment of our collective imaginations!” — Suzette Francis Copy Share Image
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
“What a paradox is there: flying higher into heaven, at the same time being forced to work deeper into the hell of… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems… — William O'Neil Copy Share Image
That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
“The story ‘Good Old Neon’ invokes two conundrums from mathematical logic, the Berry and Russell paradoxes, to describe a psychological double bind… — James Ryerson Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“And on that note, why are they called the No Name Mountains?” Moore continued as he stoked the fire, poking at it… — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, France's history is unique in Europe. Not to put too fine a point on it, France… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature,… — Stig Dagerman Copy Share Image
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.” — Juefan Huihong Copy Share Image
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. — Daphne Rae Copy Share Image
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no morehurt, only more love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To her he was still mythic, still larger than life, still the man who could deactivate monsters. He was also the man… — Scott Cawthon Copy Share Image
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there. — M E W Sherwood Copy Share Image
“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves” — Lady Grey Copy Share Image
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him — Mike Erre Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me. — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
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