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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
"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."
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"Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice."
"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes."
"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."
"I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories."
"This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own."
"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."
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