"I make the case in the book that Standard English, that language we all aspire to live and move and have our being within, is actually based on a fiction. It's not anyone's native way of speaking or writing. That's why we have to take classes in it. Language is just really squishy."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Kory Stamper

#Moving Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.”
“Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
“People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.”
“I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
“I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
“Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.”

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