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Language Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much…
- You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made…
- Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to…
- I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or…
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- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman