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- Patrick Rothfuss99◆ Language ... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich98◆ Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
- Muriel Barbery98◆ Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
- Roland Barthes98◆ Poetry: the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge98◆ As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Gore Vidal98◆ Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
- Wilkie Collins98◆ Know what you are talking about.
- Pope John Paul II98◆ A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.
- Henry David Thoreau98◆ Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Winston Churchill98◆ The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
- Italo Calvino98◆ An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
- Edith Wharton98◆ In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- Mark Twain98◆ What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
- Aldous Huxley98◆ We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
- Madeleine L'Engle98
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