Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up."
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Connotation
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Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry."
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