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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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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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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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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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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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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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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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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'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 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 function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
Saying
"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."
Life
"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
Admiration
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
Reading
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
Challenge
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
Language
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
Education
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
Information
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
Ambiguity
"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."
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