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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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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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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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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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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles."
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"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."
Music
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
Music
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
Complexity
"First of all I listen to music. I like music."
Music
"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
Money
"In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944."
Deserted
"I don't use old music."
Music
"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."
Home
"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
Mother
"I only want to give a metaphysic for my music."
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