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"The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."

"Language is the key to the heart of people."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awo..."

"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy onesel..."

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translate..."

"I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me."

"Meow” means “woof” in cat."

"Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt."

"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels l..."