"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."

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"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."

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"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

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"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."

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"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."

Modernity, Literary

"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."

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"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."

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"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."

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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."

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"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."

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"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."

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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Language, Words

"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"

Dean Koontz, American Author

Language, Word, Sound, Meaning

"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Language, Words, Memory, Expression

"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

George Eliot, British Author

Language, Bible, Communication, Humor

"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Language, Wisdom, Power, Truth, Inspirational

"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Language, Identity, Tradition, Speech

"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Language, Culture, Understanding, Humor

"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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