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Language Quotes
"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination."
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters."
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"They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.'You?'Great.They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence."
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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."
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"Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear."
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"The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression."
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