"Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual."

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Source : Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.13, Univ of California Press

Roland Barthes

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“Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.”

Source : "Comics: Meet the Artist". Interview with Suzanne Tobin, www.washingtonpost.com. June 30, 2006.
“There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.”
“Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.”
“Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.”
“From now onwards, whenever you fail -- just congratulate yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vishwas Mudagal from Jan 13, 2015
“Worry and faith just don't mix.”
“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.”

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