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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."
"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?"
"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."
"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
"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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"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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