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Robert Smithson

"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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Donna Grant

"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."

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Donna Grant

"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Robert Smithson
"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."

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Robert Smithson
"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."

Language

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Robert Smithson
"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum."

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Robert Smithson
"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."

Language

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Robert Smithson
"Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time."

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Robert Smithson
"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."

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Robert Smithson
"An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words."

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Robert Smithson
"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."

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Robert Smithson
"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."

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Robert Smithson
"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."

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