One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
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