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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
"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."
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
"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."
"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
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"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
"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."
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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