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"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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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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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
People
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
Fiction
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
Danger
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
Life
"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
Family
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