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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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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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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Genius
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
Instinct
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Business
"Literature is news that stays news."
Literature
"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."
Art
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Truth
"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Life
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