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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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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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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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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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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing."
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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
Lie
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
Friendship
"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Woman
"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."
Art
"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
Woman
"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
People
"Ireland is a great country to die or be married in."
Nation
"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."
Fame
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
Creativity
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