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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess

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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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Violence
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. – Samuel Butler

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I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life. – Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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