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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
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