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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."
Logic
"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."
Design
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
Cultural
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
Books
"Italy is a divided country without a center."
Nation
"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."
Language
"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
Time
"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
Creativity
"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
Choice
"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
Books
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"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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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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