• Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

  Harry Mathews
  American writer 1930-2017
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. overwhelming
2. constraints
3. language
4. thinking
5. slavish
6. agents

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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. by : Harry Mathews

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