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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
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Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
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Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
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For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43 -
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973 -
Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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How I wish you could see the potential
The potential of you and me
It's like a book elegantly bound, but
In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
You got to spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find love
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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