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Book: A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English
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  1. Anthony Burgess _ A Mouthful of Air: Languages

    If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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  2. Anthony Burgess _ A Mouthful of Air: Languages

    We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.
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  3. Anthony Burgess _ A Mouthful of Air: Languages

    Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
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