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"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."
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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."
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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
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"She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air."
Nature
"Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer."
Home
"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."
Betrayal
"Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty."
Personality
"I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good."
Self
"In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell."
Trust
"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."
Desire
"Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying."
Honesty
"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."
Remembrance
"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."
Beauty
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