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"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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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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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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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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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
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"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
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"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
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"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
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"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."
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"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
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"To marry a fool is to be no fool."
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"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
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