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

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

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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."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

Kevin Kline, American Actor

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie."

Jeremy Bulloch, British Actor

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"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."

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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."

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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."

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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."

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

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"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."

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"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

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"History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information."

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