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Ambiguity Quote by Celeste Ng

“One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.” quote by Celeste Ng — Download Open image

“One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.”

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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

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I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

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Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror…

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I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

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I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with…

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I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

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