Louise Rennison Quotes

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness".

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Everything’s not exactly the way it seems ” I said. “It seemed like you had your tongue down his throat ” Finn glared at us both. “Well then everything is exactly as it seems ” Loki said glibly.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same shortcoming - and I hope that, one of these days, someone will claim that my book, while it goes in a salutary expansive direction, doesn't go far enough, that there are assumptions I make that show I've missed aspects of Mann's irony and ambiguity.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.