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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
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"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 importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
"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."
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