#dox

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#civilization #complex #does #fragmented #genius

Shep: "You have to overlook his demons. It's the only way he'll know." Abby: "Know what?" Shep: "If you'll climb over the wall. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#any #fiction #heart #job #kind

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #characters #contradictory #easily #fun

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#funny #funny guy #guy #i #i think

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. ↗

— Evan Parker

#apparent #concern #contradictions #many #me

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians. ↗

— Robert Shea

#christians #driven #hierarchical #orthodox #out

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ↗

— Robert South

#incomprehensible #mind #paradoxical #substances #things

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#become #beings #occurs #paradox #remain