"I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."

Ambiguity, Grief, Identity, Conflict, Morality

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

Alexander Haig, American Public Servant

Ambiguity,

"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

Ambiguity, Being, Resolution, Sensitivity

"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."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Ambiguity, Writing

"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."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Ambiguity, Violence, Paradox, Darkness, Light

"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

Ambiguity, Trust, Alliance, Uncertainty, Conflict

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

Ambiguity, Appearance, Reality, Observation

"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

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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 know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."

Holly Black, American Author

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"I survive at the edge of friends circles."

Psychology

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth

"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."

Protection

"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

"I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts."

Emotion

"Can't get away from your own self."

Self

"I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good."

Self

"You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet."

Self

"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