The most important questions are the ones we can't hope to answer with words. Words are like toys : they amuse and educate us for a time, but when we come to manhood, we should give them up.' Sunmer shakes his head.' The words are all we have, ' he says.' If we give them up, we are no better than the beasts.' Otto smiles at Sunmer's wrong headedness.' Then you must find out the explanations on your own, if that is what you truly think. Ian McGuire
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 Ian McGuire
The most important questions are the ones we can't hope to answer with words. Words are like toys : they amuse and educate us for a time, but when we come to manhood, we should give them up.' Sunmer shakes his head.' The words are...
The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?
Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.
