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“We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.”
“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we dont have language for. What fascinates me about that is were talking about an art form in which your medium ...”
“We both think love (and language) are interesting but taffylike diversions: soft, simple, perhaps a little salty. If either one takes over your life, you're an ass.”
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of themwas hurt or molested by our band. (...) The whites were complaining at the same time that we were intruding upontheir rights. ...”
“Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:names the motherof the ten thousand things.”
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”
“When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,' there comes a reflection of the word back from the mirror of my mind, making a second impression, a...”
“What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It was this: you did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who sp...”
“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”
“Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.”
“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”
“We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.”
“In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.”
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, nigh...”
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)”
“I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.”
“Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the listener having to know anything about us. Music touches people's emotions in a way th...”
“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”
“Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning...”
“It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.”
