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"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."
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"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
"While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht."
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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