"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."

Language, Thought, Expression, Metaphor

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"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."

Timothy West, British Actor

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"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

Robert Southey, English Poet

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"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."

Andy Partridge, British Musician

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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

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"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."

Janet Fitch, American Author

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"Birth was the death of him."

Death

"Do we mean love, when we say love?"

Love

"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"

People

"If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love."

Love

"Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted."

Philosophy

"In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point."

Social

"Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen."

Philosophy

"I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in."

Awareness

"You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade."

Mindfulness

"I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments."

Mindfulness