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"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
Antonio Lobo Antunes
"To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words"
Charles Baudelaire
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery"
Charles Baudelaire
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Ezra Pound
"We inhabit a language rather than a country"
Jacques Derrida
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
James Madison
"Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light"
Jose Saramago
"The pen is the tongue of the mind"
Miguel de Cervantes
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To speak a true word is to transform the world"
Paulo Freire
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined"
Toni Morrison
"The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something."
Umberto Eco
"I want to see thirst inside the syllables"
Pablo Neruda
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything You read and you’re pierced"
Aldous Huxley
"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true"
Salman Rushdie
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