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"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."
Government
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."
Society
"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
Eternity
"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."
Society
"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."
Attention
"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
Language
"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."
Parents
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."
Feelings
"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
Isolation
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."
Music
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