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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
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Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Source: On Writing (2002) 130 -
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them.
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Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
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Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
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