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Words Quotes

"Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair"

"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"

"Words are all we have."

"There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large"

"But writing is the act of trawling the shadows to find the heart shaped glare"

"A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by mere words."

"Translation is a form of transformation"

"I want to see thirst inside the syllables"

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

"After all is said and done, more is said than done"

"We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them."

"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"

"At every word a reputation dies"

"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them"

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