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"I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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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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"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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"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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"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"
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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people."
People
"I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'"
Friendship
"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
Truth
"She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me."
Love
"But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone."
Faith
"The best way to die is when your living."
Philosophy
"Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft."
Literature
"Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible, and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong."
Life
"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
Reading
"I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway across the world."
Philosophy
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