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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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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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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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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."
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"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
"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
"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
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
Reading
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."
Language
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
Ambiguity
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
Challenge
"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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