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Language Quotes by David Levithan
- We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we…
- Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
- I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.
- Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at…
- I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests,…
- I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other…
- I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the…
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