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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
EVELYN WAUGH

Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Impose Language People Reach Wish
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
VERA WANG

Culture Language Myself Style Talk
Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Current Expressed Indeed Language Opinion Phrase Respect Scientific Such
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
JIM MORRISON

Embracing English Horrible Language Phrases Thinking
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Attachment Community Different Growth Home Language Parents See Shame Talk Yourself
Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Best Breed Careless Grammarly Language Morality Stupidity Truth Writer
I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Country Hate Language Myself Reflection Spirit True Understand Word
The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.
PRIMO LEVI

Abominable Alchemist Chemistry Hodgepodge Idea Ignorable Instead Interest Language Least Magician Organ Swindles Wuiivocal
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
ROLAND BARTHES

Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
SOPHIA LOREN

Enough Knowledge Language Myself Woman
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
J. D. SALINGER

Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER

Communication Follow Grasp Improvement Language Self Subject
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAY

Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
O. HENRY

Bridge Comfortable Eyes Language Widow
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
I’m not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they’ve influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.
AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO

Concerned English Fact Influenced Language Original Quote Spanish Worldview
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Focus Language Myself Note Work
Letting go is actually the easiest decision we can make. We become so adapted to the weight of our heavy hearts that being light again is a foreign language.
BRIANNA PASTOR

Decision Easy Heart Language Let Go Light Ourselves
Then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Began Character Describe Group Language Problem
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
BILL W.

Heart Language Suffering
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Across Course Culture Cut Emotional Experience Language Music
Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
ANTONIN ARTAUD

Art Culture Expression Language Limitation Magic Oneself Shatter Theatre
Music is beyond any language.
ALISON BUTCHER

Beyond Language Music One Liner
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Already Break Fallen Form Infidelity Language Love Say
I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
DAVID BOWIE

Funny Language Myself Smoking
The artist must say it without saying it.
DUKE ELLINGTON

Artist Language

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