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• Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance… — Irving Copi
• Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it. — Giovanni Boccaccio
• When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely.… — Julius Lester
• Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter
• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal
• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city… — Gore Vidal

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