"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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"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 know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."

Holly Black, American Author

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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

Ambiguity, Trust, Alliance, Uncertainty, Conflict

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

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

Alexander Haig, American Public Servant

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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."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

Ambiguity, Being, Resolution, Sensitivity

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

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

Roger von Oech, American Author

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

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

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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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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."

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"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."

Dream

"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."

Imagination

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

Life

"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."

People

"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."

Family

"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."

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"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."

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