Cecilia Dart-Thornton Quotes

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.