“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”
Source: Rabbit, Run
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes

“When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.”
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

About changing congress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9j15eig_w (c. 1977)
Context: It's nice to elect the right people, but that isn't the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.

“The Wrong Response to Holtzman”, New York Times, Dec. 30, 1987
“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.”
Source: Between The Tides

“The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.”
Act IV
The Bending of the Bough (1900)