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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."
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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 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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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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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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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."
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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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"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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"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
Past
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
Home
"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."
Home
"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
Opinion
"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
Responsibility
"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
Creativity
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
World
"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
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
Time
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