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• The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess
• All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop — Redman
• Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in… — Ernest Hemingway
• It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it… — Raymond Chandler
• I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang… — Raymond Chandler
• The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling
• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang… — Tom Robbins
• Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a… — Jack Donovan
• READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce
• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner
• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy

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