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“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
“You are the owner and keeper of your word. Distribute them wisely.”
“I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.”
“Words have no power... which you do not give them.”
“You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.”
“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out...”
“Words carry oceans on their small backs.”
“You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door”
“A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant”
“The power to create lies in the thoughts and words.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by th...”
“A drop of ink may make a million think.”
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they g...”
“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons w...”
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
“But words are more powerful than anything.”
“What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We ...”
“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”
