"I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence."
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"Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language."
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"With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting."
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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."
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"Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence."
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"You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests me. If I do it, it's because I want to see things in another way, not necessarily because I want to shock anybody."
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"If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language."
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"It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people."
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"Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace."
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"It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in."
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"My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words."
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"Language always gives you away."
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"To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all."
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"Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks."
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"I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own."
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"Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language."
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"I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck."
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"That is not good language which all understand not."
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"There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken."
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"Faire language grates not the tongue."
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