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“That, too, was one of his rules: Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take…

— Elif Shafak

“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.…

— Lily King

“When the tongue fails to convey what the heart has in store; Silence, becomes the language of love.”

— Suhaib Rumi

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“The world is full of incomprehensible words”

— Haruki Murakami

“When words fail, silence will not be our answer. We will find new ways to speak, new ways to be heard, and we will…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“When words fail, then real language arrives, that rare guest.”

— Carolyn Chun

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is…

— Ramon C. Sunico

“Unloving attitudes and words cause a “stench that the world can smell. . . . Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us…

— James Emery White