#confusion

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. ↗

— Robert McKee

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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. ↗

— John Cheever

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I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#am #any #believe #christian #confusion

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ↗

— James Agee

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I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#confusion #freeze #i #i do #me

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ↗

— George Santayana

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