"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

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Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

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"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."

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"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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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"Media, the plural of mediocrity."

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"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."

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"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."

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"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."

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"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

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"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."

"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."

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"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."

"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

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"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."

"The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money."

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

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