"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."

Communication, Language, Expression, Thought

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"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."

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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"

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"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."

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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."

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"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."

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"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."

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"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."

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"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."

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"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."

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"She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world."

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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."

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"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."

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"The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling."

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"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."

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"The free man never thinks of escape."

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