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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
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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."
"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."
"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
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