#diction

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #awake #because #change #continue

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#creatively #had #hearts #jane #music

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#armed #bloodshed #contradiction #danger #dialogue

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#called #dictionary #great #made #memory

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#ecstatic #i #producing #started #work

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#call #contradictions #new #new testament #religion

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#falsity #lack #nor #sign #truth

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. ↗

— Ron Paul

#absolutely #am #card #contradiction #free