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Language Quotes by Anthony Doerr
- Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a…
- My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
- It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
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