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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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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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