All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Henry Ward Beecher
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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Anonymous
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
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Alexander Trocchi
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
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Joseph Bruchac
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By M.L. Rio
For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.
One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food–lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt this before.
For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.
