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There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
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The human face is the organic seat of beauty… It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that's not to say… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
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My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its… — Njabulo S Ndebele Copy Share Image
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Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.… — George Steiner Copy Share Image