Language Quote by Vivek Shanbhag

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.” quote by Vivek Shanbhag — Download Open image

““Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.””

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“Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house - my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is my older sister, back home now after having left her husband. It is natural to wonder, I suppose, why the six of us should want to live together. What can I say - it is one…

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“The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.”

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“If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have robe made elsewhere. The result was…

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“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If we noticed they'd laid siege to a snack, we might trap them in a circle drawn with water and take away whatever they were eating, then watch them scurry about in confusion before wiping them off the floor…

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“It’s true what they say—it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly;…

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“Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. I had grown up among them – how was it…

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“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

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“there’s a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I”

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