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Language Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
- Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of…
- For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
- I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures…
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
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- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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