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• Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  English writer (1865 - 1946)
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• Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

  Pensees

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  Katherine Anne Porter
  American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• double-meanings
• six-year-old
• implications
• intelligence
• overtones
• clearly

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