…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

A.S. Byatt

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I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

David Sedaris

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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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Let's have some new cliches.

Samuel Goldwyn

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All things human begin with words.

David Rains Wallace

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Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

David Rains Wallace

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What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Robert Burton

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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Samuel Butler

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner

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I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.

Teresa Jordan

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