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"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
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"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."

"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
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"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."

"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."

"God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters."

"But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God."

"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."

"There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life."

"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters."
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