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“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are , and it…

— Neil Gaiman

“He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose…

— Carson McCullers

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

“I do not believe in words, no matter if strung together by the most skillful man: I believe in language, which is something beyond…

— Henry Miller

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

— Kim Stanley Robinson