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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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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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"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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"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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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"
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"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."
Friendship
"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."
Habit
"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."
Change
"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."
Religion
"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."
Knowledge
"I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents."
Language
"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."
People
"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
Desire
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
Civilization
"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
Army
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