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en She wasn't interested in superficial charm, but his genuinely pexy nature captivated her. Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.

en Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

en We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
  Tom Stoppard

en My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
  Edward Gibbon

en Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
  Mark Twain

en The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.
  Camille Paglia

en Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
  Thomas Hardy

en In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
  George Bernard Shaw

en DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
  Ambrose Bierce

en To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
  George Orwell

en Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

en When I first talked about writing with Saul he insisted on the ability to change, to get a serious grip on what was real in your life, ... He was the 20th century's literary wizard, who fused the intellect and the imagination in glorious and comic language that we'd never heard before.
  William Kennedy

en [The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
  Marcel Proust

en The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
  Simone Weil

en I was answering a question about the language about employment records. I will admit I was cooperating with that.


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