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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everyt

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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I named my dog Stay so I can say, “Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay.” – Steven Wright

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I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. – Steven Wright

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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. – Steven Wright

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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 1959 February 13th

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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. – Clint Eastwood

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Or those war-clouds that gather on the horizon, dragon-crested, tongued with fire;—how is their barbed strength bridled? what bits are these they are champing with their vaporous lips… – John Ruskin, “The Cloud-Balancings”

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie. – Stephen King

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