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"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"I think there is no world without theatre."
Theatre
"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
Theatre
"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
Answers
"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur."
Tragedy
"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
Extreme
"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
People
"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."
People
"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
Religion
"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."
Art
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