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"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
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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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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
Science
"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
Fiction
"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
Emotional
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
Woman
"I used to not back down from a challenge."
Challenge
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
Education
"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
Language
"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
Family
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
Life
"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
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