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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."
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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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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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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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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Language is wine upon the lips."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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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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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
Choice
"Italy is a divided country without a center."
Nation
"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."
Design
"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
"We all look for lost time."
Time
"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
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
Design
"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
Creativity
"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
Time
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