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"My use of language is part and parcel of my message."
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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
"Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters."
"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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"I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland."
"No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result."
"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."
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