Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
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Language Words
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Toni Cade Bambara
Writer, Activist
"Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges."
Abigail Adams
First Lady, Advocate
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
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"There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind."
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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
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"I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions."
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"You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well."
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