Quotes 101 till 120 of 314.
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
De Witte tijger (2008) 177 -
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
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Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
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Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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