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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
Choice
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
Books
"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
Creativity
"We all look for lost time."
Time
"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."
Design
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
Design
"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."
Language
"There's always some kind of hidden logic."
Logic
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
Cultural
"Italy is a divided country without a center."
Nation
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