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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."
"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."
"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
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