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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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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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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 FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people."
People
"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
Country
"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."
Change
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
Intelligence
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
American
"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
Failure
"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
Europe
"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
Intelligence
"By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter."
Question
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
People
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