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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."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
"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."
"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"
"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'.)"
"'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another."
"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
"I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality."
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"Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile."
"No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
"I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones."
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