"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel……" — Stephen Rea
"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
More Ambiguity Quotes
- During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and… — John le Carre
- The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise… — William Thompson
- Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,… — John Updike
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no… — Unknown Author
- Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the… — Richard Hamming
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of… — Paul Tillich
- No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying… — Rajneesh
- It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science… — Lewis Thomas
- All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact,… — Henri Poincare
- I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity. — Helena Rubinstein
- Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution.… — Giuseppe Peano
- We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are… — John Green