"The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words."

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Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.227, Vintage

Peter Farb

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“I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.”
“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.”
“Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.”
“I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.”
“When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to pushing her out of his life. Men! Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand, when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?”
“On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.”

Source : Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns
“I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.”

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