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Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm {opposition}, there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict {the choice of one term against another}, and...

Roland Barthes The Neutral:...
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm {opposition}, there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict {the choice of one term against another}, and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked โ€“ Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both {only the techies came in English}.

Manil Suri The City of Devi
I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked โ€“ Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both {only the techies came in English}.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil M. Cioran
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on.I do, Alice hastily replied; at least-at least I mean what I say-that's the same thing, you know.Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter....

Lewis Carroll Alice in...

My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow,...

Terry Tempest Williams When Women Were...

Otaku {ใŠใŸ} is also a formal way of saying "you". ใŸ means "house", and with the honorific ใŠ, it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a...

Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the...

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find...

Stephen King Hearts in...

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it...

Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical...

, she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas,...

Anais Nin The Novel of the...

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. {Seriously, how could anyone who...

Jodi Picoult House Rules

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of...

When the language one identifies with is far away, one does everything possible to keep it alive.

Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words

In American, when I was young, my parents always seemed to be in mourning for something. Now I understand: it must have been the language.

Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of...

Franz Kafka Letters to...

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to...

Ian Mcewan Amsterdam

From this I think we can conclude that the definitive English holorime has yet to be written. However, an old children's riddle does seem to come close. It is the one that poses the question "How do...

Bill Bryson The Mother...

Language is more fashion than science

Bill Bryson The Mother...

The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. -the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the...

Margaret Atwood The Blind...

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of...

Elizabeth Kostova The Historian

In France the most often used word is connerie, which means bullshit, and in America it's hands-down awesome, which has replaced incredible, good, and even just OK. Pretty much everything that isn't...

David Sedaris Calypso

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if...

Lynne Truss Eats, Shoots &...

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

Aimee Bender The Color...

What you should do, she told Fat during one of his darker hours, is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34. Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion...

Philip K. Dick CHOOSE

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple...

Adam Gopnik Paris to the...
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