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“Pareidolia describes the human tendency to find meaning where there is none. Take the man in the moon, for example; we raise our eyes, and there, in lifeless markings of bedrock and basalt, we find...”
“ALL words are made-up: Do you think we find them fully formed on the ocean floor, or mine from them in some remote part of Wales?”
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
“We livein the smallspaces between our wordshidingbetweenthe saidand allwe cannot say.”
“Words or fists, it didn't matter. The soul was still shattered.”
“Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. God. Science. Meaning.”
“We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.”
“The words come at my call but who calls whom?”
“All the words I have to say have turned into stars.”
“Sometimes words aren't necessary.”
“I could have been a priest instead of a prophet. The priest has a book with the words set out. Old words, known words, words of power. Words that are always on the surface. Words for every occasion...”
“Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its own. You build a home for it and hope it can find itself at home among all the other words. Nestled...”
“Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is...”
“Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.”
“Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred fro...”
“Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be”
“I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.”
“Words are themselves organisms, ...”
“Normally, words are sentfrom the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to checkthem, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that theyre nicely wrapped...”
“I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.”
