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Maurice Maeterlinck

"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."

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"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."

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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

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"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

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"It's only words... unless they're true."

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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."

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"The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently."

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"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."

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"My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"'Programming' is a four-letter word."

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"Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult."

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