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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 use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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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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"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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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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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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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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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 want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
People
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
Language
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
Family
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
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