…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. ByattI find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.
David SedarisVocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A.S. ByattTag: words vocabulary
Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel GoldwynAll things human begin with words.
David Rains WallaceLand and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.
David Rains WallaceTag: words perception water land
What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert BurtonTag: words reading books literature
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerTag: words reading books freedom literature
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
William FaulknerTag: words silence stupidity fool talking
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.
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