"Fact is richer than diction." — J L Austin
"Fact is richer than diction."
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J L Austin
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10 Quotes by J L Austin
J L Austin has 10 quotes on this site.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that…
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After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely…
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often…
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or…
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all…
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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More Diction Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
— will.i.am
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With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of…
— Unknown Author
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I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large…
— James Agee
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Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves…
— Samuel Johnson
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Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration…
— Arthur Wallis
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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different…
— Donna Tartt
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The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak…
— Chance the Rapper
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This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When…
— Stephen Graham Jones
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There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a…
— John Dryden
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French…
— Vivien Leigh
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You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
— Paul Robeson
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