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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
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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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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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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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"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
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"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
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"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
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"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
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"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
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"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."
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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
People
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