Quote by Elias Canetti
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even thoug

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti

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Goodness
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You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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Names
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane

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Writing

The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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Writing

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. – Norman Mailer, 1998

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Writing

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Writing

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