On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned "Lie down," "Shut up," and "Who shit on this carpet?" The couple across the road taught me to ask questions correctly, and the grocer taught me to count. Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window. "I want me some lamb chop with handles on 'em.
David SedarisTag: language
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
Jeffrey EugenidesTag: language emotion patriarchy
A language is everything you do.
Margaret AtwoodTag: language
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTag: words animals soul communication language frances-hodgson-burnett little-princess
The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
Markus ZusakWords belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
Hakim BeyTag: language changeling-songs multiple-entendre neuro-linguistic-programming
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
Mark SloukaHere's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.
Anthony DoerrTag: words reading books literature language
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Margaret AtwoodA picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Ludwig WittgensteinTag: philosophy language isolation solipsism picture
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