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“But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.”
“But language is wine upon his lips”
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.”
“Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write i...”
“Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.”
“Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.”
“Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.”
“But for my own part it was Greek to me.”
“I am the King of Rome and above grammar.”
“Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.”
“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned or of dictionary-makers but is something arising out of the work needs ties joys affections tastes of long generations of humanity and has it...”
