The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
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Courtney Love
Language is the key to the heart of people.
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Ahmed Deedat
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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John Green
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the...
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Stephen Fry
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
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Marcel Duchamp
More Quotes By Mary Norris
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.
Nobody knows everything–one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn–and everybody makes mistakes.
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
