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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
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"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."
"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline."
"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."
"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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