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"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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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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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
Ability
"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
Language
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Learning
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
War
"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
Art
"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
Job
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
Man
"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
Time
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
Music
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