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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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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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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 warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
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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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"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 only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
People
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
Fiction
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
Fiction
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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