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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Language, Behavior, Rebellion, Youth

"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Language, Meaning, Understanding, Communication

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

Language, Memory, Communication, Change

"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Language, Metaphor, Truth, Emotion

"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

Language, Profanity, Respect, Communication

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Language, Culture, Globalization, Identity

"Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Language, Change, Authority, Tradition

"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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Language, Expression, Communication, Writing

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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."

Influence

"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."

History

"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."

Literature

"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."

Hope

"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."

Art

"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones."

Family

"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."

Poems

"A chronicle is very different from history proper."

History

"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"

Work

"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."

Technology