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"Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter."
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"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice
"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
Philosophy
"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."
Attitude
"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."
Equality
"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society
"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"
Literature
"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Wisdom
"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
Creativity
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
Nature
"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."
Society
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