"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."

Ambiguity, Writing

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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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"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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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

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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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"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

"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

Roger von Oech, American Author

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

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Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster

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

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