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"Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it."
"The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains."
"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."
"It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications."
"What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being."
"...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy."
"I do consider even going to prostitutes, or seeing a hooker or an escort, as having an emotional component, even if it's not an emotion necessarily in the relationship. Even if you are paying in order to absolve yourself of any emotional involvement. That's the paradox."
"3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself."
"She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox."
"Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek."
"Paradoxes are the only truths."
"The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head."
"This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think."
"To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life."
"Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention."
"I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
"I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure."
"One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either."
"We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite."
"The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense."
