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"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."
Language
"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."
Art
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
Friendship
"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
Nature
"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."
Work
"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
Work
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
Painting
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
Nothing
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
Thought
"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."
Isolation
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