"Language is a form of organized stutter."
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"Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair."
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"The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction."
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"I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others."
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"I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me"
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"Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown."
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"A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression."
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"Grammar is the analysis of language."
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"Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind."
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"The most important word in the English language is hope."
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"You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well."
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"I find vocabulary to be a great drawback."
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"To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world."
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"One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language."
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"We inhabit a language rather than a country."
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"I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language."
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"French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy."
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"Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language."
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"Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries."
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"Language is also a place of struggle."
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