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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

~Edward Norton

Topics: All People Ambiguity Because Characters Contradictory Easily Fun Hard Impulses Like Paradoxical People Shades Who

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People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more advanced Christians, or they don't have to do what the bishop says.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Advanced Ambiguity Bishop Boundaries Christians Clear Comfortable Definitions Group Instability Like More People Say Says Very Who

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We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: About Always Ambiguity Been Deeply Enemy Forgetting Get Granted Hypocrisy Impossible Inefficiency Kind Life Like Never Our Partisanship Play Political Rid Roles Social Social Life Them Things Thought Too Took

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Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

~Gene Wolfe

Topics: Ambiguity Attainable Certainly Closure Doubt Necessary Never Richness Some Stories Story Those

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