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"The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door."
Language
"It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation."
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"I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books."
Time
"I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left."
Act
"I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things."
Religion
"If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus."
Time
"It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh."
Life
"I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity."
Vulgarity
"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
Forgiveness
"I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food."
Food
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