"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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"Life is but words."

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"In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of words together, and we learn what language does and why it matters. this is excellent training for going out into the world and looking at all the unhallowed speech of political statements and news headlines and CDC instructions and seeing how it makes the word or in this case, makes a mess of it. It is the truest, highest purpose of language to make things clear and help us see; when words are used to do the opposite you know you're in trouble and maybe that there's a cover-up."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands."

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

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"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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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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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

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"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

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"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

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"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

"Life is but words."

"He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands."

"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."

"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."

"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"

"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."

"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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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."

"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."

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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."

"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."

"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."