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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.
- Good Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
- Social Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020