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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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"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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"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."
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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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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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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."
Aesthetics
"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."
Beauty
"I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion."
Mortality
"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."
Imperfection
"I survive at the edge of friends circles."
Psychology
"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."
Life
"What an author doesn't know could fill a book."
Writing
"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."
Self
"I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying."
Survival
"Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to."
Ethics
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