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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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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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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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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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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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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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"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
Years
"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
Life
"The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event."
Language
"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."
Money
"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
Actor
"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse."
Time
"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
Difficulty
"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."
Age
"Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth."
Life
"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
People
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