E. V. Lucas Quotes

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

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

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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.'

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

Every side of a coin has another side.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

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

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

There's two heads to every coin.