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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."
"Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals."
"We float in language like icebergs " four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience."
"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..."
"The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue."
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."
"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."
"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
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