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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Matter
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George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
- Sometimes
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In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.
- Change
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Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
- Commune
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The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
- Love
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So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
- Prison
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Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.
- Character
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I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.
- Friendship
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Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
- Like
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
- Living
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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
- Paris
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- Nov 07, 2020