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People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the…
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to…
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Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may…
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It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
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In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out…
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It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy…
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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the…
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the…
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Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters…
— Mal Peet
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Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And…
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part…
— Black Elk
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When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean…
— Lewis Carroll
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,…
— Walt Whitman
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The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to…
— Brion Gysin
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