#contradict

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. ↗

— Sally Schneider

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

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I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. ↗

— Rod Stewart

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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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