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Quotes about words
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. (Abbey Lynn)
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. (Abbey Lynn)
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. (Abbey Lynn)
. . . early morning does not mince words . . . (Abbey Lynn)
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Abbey Lynn)
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates. (Abbey Lynn)
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. (Abbey Lynn)
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. (Abbey Lynn)
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better. (Abbey Lynn)
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. (Abbey Lynn)
The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm. (Abbey Lynn)
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. (Abbey Lynn)
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. (Abbey Lynn)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. (Abbey Lynn)
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. (Abbey Lynn)
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Abbey Lynn)
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. (Abbey Lynn)
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. (Abbey Lynn)
By words the mind is winged. (Abbey Lynn)
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company. (Abbey Lynn)
The words of the world want to make sentences. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are all we have. (Abbey Lynn)
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Abbey Lynn)
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. (Abbey Lynn)
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