"The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic."

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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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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

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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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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

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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."

"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."

"Language is wine upon the lips."

"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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

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"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."