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No, no, it’s not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and...

—Ray Bradbury

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Try telling the boy who’s just had his girlfriend’s namecut into his arm that there’s slippage between the signifierand the signified. Or better yet explain to the girlwho watched in the mirror as the tattoo...

—Todd Davis

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A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on...

—Paul Celan

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It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having...

—William Faulkner

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And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or uttered sentence so as not to produce a dissonance in meaning, sound and...

—Wan Mohd

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thank you” in multiple languages.

—Steve Maraboli

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Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

—Paul Karl

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LanguageProgressScience
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Modernist discourse […] incorporates semantic devices – such as the labeling of theism as ‘religion’ and naturalism as ‘science’ – that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the...

—Phillip E.

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I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

—Stanislas Dehaene

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I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

—Steven Millhauser

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It’s embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

—Anthony Doerr

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…that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

—Brian Friel

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The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any...

—Andrew Dalby

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Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

—Ben Jonson

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My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn’t want to learn German anyway.

—Alex Bosworth

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A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.

—Bernard Bloch

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A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.

—Angelo Tiwana Quiamco

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Language is what we use to tell stories, transmit knowledge, and build social bonds. It comforts, tickles, excites, and destroys. Every society has language, and somehow we all learn a language in the first few...

—Charles Yang

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Kati ya nchi yako na serikali yako ni kitu gani unakipenda zaidi? Ipende zaidi nchi yako, kuliko serikali yako!

—Enock Maregesi

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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

—Ethan Zuckerman

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CommonLanguageStep
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Isn’t language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world’s people? Perhaps, but it’s a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express...

—Jared Diamond

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English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds...

—Cristina Henriquez

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Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

—David Schwarzer

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The term “political correctness” has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell’s “Thought Police” and fascist regimes.

—Helmut Newton

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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

—Daniel Alarcón

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Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

—Cirilo F.

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That’s so different in Hong Kong when I’m using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

—Chow Yun-Fat

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LanguageMotherTreat
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It was an American who said that while a Frenchman’s truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman’s truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh...

—Jan Morris

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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

—Gaston Bachelard

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DreamsLanguageNature
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It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

—Jane Austen

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Language
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My nail is a bit rusty.

—Jarod Kintz

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HumorLanguageNail
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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

—Gustave Flaubert

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The Latin word for sausage was botulus, from which English gets two words. One of them is the lovely botuliform, which means sausage-shaped and is a more useful word than you might think. The other...

—Mark Forsyth

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I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

—Keith Jarrett

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LanguageLearnedSpeak
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We all know that there are language forms that are considered impolite and out of order, no matter what truths these languages might be carrying. If you talk with a harsh, urbanized accent and you...

—Junot Díaz

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LanguageMarginalizationPower
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When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.

—Marty Rubin

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ClarityLanguageMeaning
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Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

—John Clare

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LanguageLovePoetry
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For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

—Nynke Visser

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ChangeInspiritationalLanguage
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Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it’s ugly to look at.

—Michael P.

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She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man’s skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he’d never studied. Maybe it would be like...

—Jodi Picoult

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LanguageLiesMouth
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Geometry is the language of time.

—Khalid Masood

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GeometryLanguageTime
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Progressives’ don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

—Kathy Shaidle

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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she’d invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty...

—Jennifer Egan

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AmericaDemocracyDisgust
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My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

—Mark Z.

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InterestLanguageMeaning
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(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, “A man who speaks but one language understands none.

—Orson Scott

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LanguagePathfinder
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las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

—Nenia Campbell

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DeathDyingFrench
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Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of language faced significant...

—Michael Gordin

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BabelLanguageVernacular
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The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled word, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.

—Osip Mandelstam

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ArmeniaArmenianLanguage
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Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict...

—Roland Barthes

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Language
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so is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentleman separated once and for all and said this in the subject this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head...

—Zbigniew Herbert

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