To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on assumptions, associations, commonalities and a kind of agreed shorthand, which no-one could precisely define but which everyone would admit exists. That is one reason why it is an effort to have a proper conversation in a foreign language. Even if I am quite fluent, even if I understand the dictionary definitions of words and phrases, I cannot rely on a shorthand with the other party, whose habit of mind is subtly different from my own. Nevertheless, all of us know of times when we have not been able to communicate in words a deep emotion and yet we know we have been understood. This can happen in the most foreign of foreign parts and it can happen in our own homes. It would seem that for most of us, most of the time, communication depends on more than words.
Jeanette WintersonTags: words communication
I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
Tags: words childhood loathing jean-paul-sartre
Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
Michael ShaaraTags: words
He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
John GeddesTags: wisdom words understanding love-lost poetry-quote immortalize
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
John GeddesTags: words love poetry inspiration writer
The words explain us all, each having a meaning in a meantime: every time for a lifetime.
Aporva KalaTags: words
You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper
Teresa Nielsen HaydenseTags: words writing soul heart paper manuscript
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
John UpdikeTags: words writing write traffic
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
Margaret EdsonTags: words vocabulary defense self-protection
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