"Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language.……" — N. Scott Momaday
"Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence."
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N. Scott Momaday
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31 Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
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