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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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"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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"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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"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
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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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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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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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Explore more quotes by John C. Hawkes
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
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"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
Danger
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
Career
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