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> [Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/words-mere-words-how-terrible-they-were-how-clear-and-vivid-and-cruel/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/dialect-words-are-those-terrible-marks-of-the-beast-to-the-truly/)

[Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4d/thomas-hardy-410_beast_dialect-words-are-those-terrible-marks-o_1209204.jpg)

> [There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/there-should-be-so-much-more-not-of-orange-of-words-of-how-terrible/)

[Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/664/frank-o-hara-6706_life_there-should-be-so-much-more-not-of-oran_1407188.png)

> [“Words are such terrible carriers of thought. They’re like the dead bodies of thoughts that the other side studies forensically.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-hippolite/words-are-such-terrible-carriers-of-thought-they-re-like-the-dead/)

[K. Hippolite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-hippolite/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb3/k-hippolite-101321_language_words-are-such-terrible-carriers-of-thou_2415675.jpg)

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