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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."
"We float in language like icebergs " four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience."
"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
"The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue."
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"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
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