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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a begga

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

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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. – Antonin Artaud

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I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as “all righty” and “yes indeedy” and hundreds of others. – James Thurber, “The Case Against Women”

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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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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