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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."
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"Language is memory and metaphor."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."
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"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
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"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
Death
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
Soul
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
People
"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
Feelings
"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."
Travel
"There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that."
First
"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."
Time
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
Appearance
"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."
Family
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