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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 warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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"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."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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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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"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
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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."
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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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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
Expression
"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
Darkness
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
Time
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
World
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
Self-Awareness
"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
War
"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."
Time
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
Perception
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
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