"Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland."

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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."

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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"

"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"

"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."

"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."

"I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart."

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

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"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."

"Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin."

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"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short."

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"I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind."

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