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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language - religion - government - blood - identity in these makes men of one country.
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I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
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I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
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I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
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I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.
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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
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