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"Metaphor is embodied in language."
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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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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
Imagination
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
Poetry
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
Age
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
Criticism
"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."
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"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
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