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Language Quotes

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark"

"There are times when it is necessary to write simply"

"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."

"Envisage—an unpleasant and overworked word."

"We inhabit a language rather than a country"

"There is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."

"I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language."

"Men speak of mirth and write of sorrow"

"To speak a true word is to transform the world"

"I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to y'all"

"Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists"

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity"

"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"

"There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words."

"The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life"

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