"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."

Ambiguity, Desire, Conflict, Fantasy, Identity

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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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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

Ambiguity, Ending, Open

"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

Alexander Haig, American Public Servant

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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

Ambiguity, Being, Resolution, Sensitivity

"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."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Ambiguity, Writing

"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."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Ambiguity, Danger, Instinct, Threat

"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster

"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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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."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

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"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"

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"I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts."

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"Can't get away from your own self."

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"I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good."

Self

"You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet."

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"The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke."

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