“painful ambiguities.”
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
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“My characters are ambiguous. Call them that. I don't mind. I am ambiguous myself. Who isn't?”
Encountering Directors interview (1969)

“Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.”
E=MO² (1985), A Fine How Ya Do

“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”

“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
Bk. IV, ch. 5
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
Source: Pierre: or, the Ambiguities
“Ambiguity: the bastard child of creativity and cowardice.”
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)

“Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life.”
Vol.2, p. 4
Systematic Theology (1951–63)
Context: Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction

“Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.”
Oblique dreamer (2000)