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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain."
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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."
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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."
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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."
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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 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 remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"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."
Ambiguity
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"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 didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
Career
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
Location
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
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