Language Quote by Alena Graedon

““We both think love (and language) are interesting but taffylike diversions: soft, simple, perhaps a little salty. If either one takes over your life, you're an ass.””

Alena Graedon

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“In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.”

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“swallowed by another noise: an indistinct thudder.”

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“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

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“Bartleby, just look at me. I wanted to do it once, too. Be a writer. Now I’m near 70, and the only thing I…

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“the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was made possible…

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“Definition, like poetry, is the project of revivifying the familiar. Making things we think we know seem newly strange. To estrange, according to Hegel,…

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“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained…

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“In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for comfort in…

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“But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always…

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“I think this had to do with the vintage of his family's money: the older the gold, the less shiny it tends to be.”

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