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"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."
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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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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
Wisdom
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
Psychoanalysis
"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
Creativity
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
Fire
"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
Man
"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower."
Jealousy
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
Nature
"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid."
People
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
Civilization
"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."
Opportunity
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