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Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman. William Hazlitt
I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth James Patterson
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Thomas Jefferson
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language. Michael Ondaatje
Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your... Jonathan Carroll
I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289) Azar Nafisi
Jodi Picoult quote: "Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak..."
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? Jodi Picoult
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Use language what you will, you can never say anything but..."
Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. Italo Calvino
Courtney Love quote: "The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. Courtney Love
The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil lamp. And there were illuminated letters in the book before him, tiny figures fitted into the capitals, the whole gleaming as he let his hand, quivering, turn the page."Ah, think of it," he said, smiling as he saw Tonio, "written language the possession of those who took such pains to preserve it. I am forever entranced with the forms in which knowledge is given us, not by... Anne Rice
William Shakespeare quote: "the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He..."
the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national William Shakespeare
Alan Kay quote: "The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your..."
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. Alan Kay
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what..."
Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell. Charlotte Bronte
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection? not an invitation for hypnosis. Umberto Eco

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