"If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue."
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"Experience is always larger than language."
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"Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display."
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"A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears."
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"There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it."
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"The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue."
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"Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it."
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"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English."
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"A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen."
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"What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning."
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"My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well."
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"What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things."
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"With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows."
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"To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym."
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"Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us."
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"Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'"
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"Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet."
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"I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment."
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