Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Patricia A. McKillip

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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Aldous Huxley

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If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Theodore Dreiser

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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Jodi Picoult

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

William Faulkner

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