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John C. Hawkes

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."

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John C. Hawkes
"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

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John C. Hawkes
"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."

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John C. Hawkes
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"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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John C. Hawkes
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

Fiction

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John C. Hawkes
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."

People

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John C. Hawkes
"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."

Fiction

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

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