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“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that othe...”
“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.”
“A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat ha...”
“Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand ...”
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”
“Sometimes, language is the sound of longing”
“Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!”
“And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you ...”
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
“That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”
“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
“Contrary to what phenomenologywhich is always phenomenology of perceptionhas tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always ...”
“Every word is a prejudice.”
“No new world without a new language.”
“The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.”
“Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting o...”
“Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most o...”
