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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget (on Dennis Wise)
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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
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On contract clauses: ‘There’s all this language where you can’t jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.’
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland –and no other.
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One man’s frankness is another man’s vulgarity.- Kevin Smith
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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.- Samuel Taylor
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Anonymous quotes
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. William Hazlitt quotes
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T.S. Eliot quotes
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.
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Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. Anonymous quotes
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