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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. - Anthony Bu

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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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. – Anthony Burgess

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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