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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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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."
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"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?"
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Language is wine upon the lips."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
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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."
Language
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
Modernity
"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."
Hope
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
Time
"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."
Fact
"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."
Fashion
"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."
Nature
"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."
Death
"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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