If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

Roland Barthes

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Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

Roland Barthes

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Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection -

Roland Barthes

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There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

Samuel Beckett

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I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

Dexter Palmer

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I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.

Michelle Templet

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To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.

Michelle Templet

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I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

William Giraldi

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I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity

Brian Kiteley

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I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

Sol Stein

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