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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
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In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
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It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
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Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English,… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
For people to understand, you can't speak 'cinema.' Cinema doesn't have alphabets, so you have to go to the local language. Even… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
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Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
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“in a foreign language. Linguists have called this epistemological law the “principle of charity”; it requires that when we are confronted with… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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My point to you is, there is no such thing as a flop that takes the field for our football team. Just… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
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