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"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
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"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
"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 cliche is everything you've ever heard of."
"When someone uses the phrase 'the prick one', and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word 'metaphorically', you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all."
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"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."
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"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
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