Anita Dobson Quotes

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

I think everything has its own pros and cons.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

There's a dark side to everything.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.