"I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers."

-- James Ellroy

#Ambiguous Quotes #Reader Quotes #Provoking Quotes

“I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.”
“To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.”
“All play and no work makes me a happy girl”
“It's too hard to make a movie if you don't care about what happens to it, or even what the product is. I can't even imagine that. It's not worth the time and effort if you don't care about the product.”
“We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.”
“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”
“Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.”
“The RÃ©gime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.”

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