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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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"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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"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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"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
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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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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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"I survive at the edge of friends circles."
Psychology
"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."
Aesthetics
"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."
Truth
"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
Ambiguity
"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."
Remembrance
"She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered."
Consumption
"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."
Protection
"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."
Eccentricity
"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."
Desire
"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"
Safety
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