"I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South"
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"They had nothing in common but the English language."
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"There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now."
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"No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text."
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"The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense"
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"If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."
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"Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language."
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"If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully."
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"The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness."
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"The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being."
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"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue."
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"The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak."
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"Two nations divided by a common language."
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"I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake."
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"Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing."
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"I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity."
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"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language."
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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language."
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"The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers."
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