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“Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.”
“What a gulf between impression and expression! Thats our ironic fateto have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like aut...”
“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
“...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenet...”
“The length of words used to explain something does not determine the quality of the thought. Yet, I tend to believe that the shorter one can say something, the better it is.”
“Loneliness of heartIn the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear...”
“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of c...”
“Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?”
“I like you; your eyes are full of language."[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and voca...”
“We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity...”
“Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he s...”
“Clover['s] eyes are full of language.”
“I love nine hundred and ninety nine facial expressions of Jemma Garner, none of them is sad look.”
“Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.”
“We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.”
“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”
“A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.”
“Meanwhile, allow me to be me .in all forms.”
“The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.”
