#confusion

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#sarah-j-maas #throne-of-glass #confusion

I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#confusion

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ↗

— Fred Allen

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Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. ↗

— Bob Dole

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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

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