"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."

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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

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"Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

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"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."

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"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."

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"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."

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"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."

"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."

"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

"Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity."

"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."

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

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"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."

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"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."

"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."

"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."

"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."

"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."