"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

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

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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

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

Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

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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."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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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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"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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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

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"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

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"Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process."

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"Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day."

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