Denis Johnson
Author, Poet
"English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows."
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English Words
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Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food."
Lydia Davis
Author
"I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!"
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