I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Woody Allen

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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

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Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

Tim Gunn

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We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Alberto Manguel

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We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.

Pete Wentz

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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

A.S. Byatt

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Milan Kundera

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Baltasar Gracián

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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

Alan Bradley

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Right!"
"Right!"
"You can get there!"
"I can get there!"
"You're a natural at counting to two!"
"I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!"
"If you can count to two, you can count to anything!"
"If I can count to two, I can count to anything!"
"And then the world is your mollusc!"
"My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

Terry Pratchett

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