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“Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when were in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.”
“It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying with...”
“I found that reading gave me a certain relief one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner less fragmented- after reading for an hour.location 3234”
“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”
“I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.”
“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the l...”
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; write...”
“I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a hous...”
“Love is the language that transcends all others.”
“Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.”
“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on...”
“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
“Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.”
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
“On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned "Lie down," "Shut up," and "Who shit on this carpet?" The couple across ...”
