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• To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much… — Roland Barthes
• We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry
• I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A. S. Byatt
• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store… — N. Scott Momaday
• One must not be shy where language is concerned. — Ann Patchett
• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland
• The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar… — Charlie Byrd
• I want to start where language ends. — Antony Gormley
• Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example,… — Michael Gazzaniga
• In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich
• Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis
• Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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