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"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."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."
People
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
Choice
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
Theatre
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
Comedy
"The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution."
Solution
"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
Music
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