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Elliot Perlman

"There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives."

Source : "Seven Types of Ambiguity". Book by Elliot Perlman, 2003.

Elliot Perlman

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“He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.”
“I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.”
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.”
“The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.”
“I am my own investigation territory.”
“I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the world is there such a glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, pine woods and cypress trees.”
“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.”

Source : "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.
“Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.”

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