Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Alan Bradley
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new...
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James D. Nicoll
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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Anonymous
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The...
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Stephen King
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
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Harold Bloom
More Quotes By Ellen Gilchrist
She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.
We live at the level of our language.
It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that...
That's great, " Katie said. "Actually, it's revolutionary. If you can work and be in love at the same time, you're the first woman I ever knew that could. Maybe you're the missing link, Amanda."Maybe you ought to get a job for the 'Ladies Home...
Young women are closer to the time when they were manipulative and childish and they don't let their babies manipulate them as much as older mothers do. These are only my conclusions from watching children in grocery stores. I love to watch them work on...
