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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."
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"We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child."
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"The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied."
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"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."
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"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."
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"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin."
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"Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man."
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"Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?"
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"I was always influenced by language."
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"It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent."
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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline."
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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
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"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
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"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."
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"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays."
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"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"
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"In life, there are no perfect affections."
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