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Language Quotes
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
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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"
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Charles Baudelaire
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery"
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Charles Baudelaire
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
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Ezra Pound
"We inhabit a language rather than a country"
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Jacques Derrida
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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James Madison
"Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light"
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Jose Saramago
"The pen is the tongue of the mind"
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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."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To speak a true word is to transform the world"
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Paulo Freire
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined"
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Toni Morrison
"The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something."
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Umberto Eco
"I want to see thirst inside the syllables"
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Pablo Neruda
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything You read and you’re pierced"
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Aldous Huxley
"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true"
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Salman Rushdie
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