"It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is."

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Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

Anthony Doerr

#Language Quotes #Inadequate Quotes

“People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.”
“Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.”
“We had a good run, and now itâ€™s over; whatâ€™s wrong with that?”
“To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.”
“It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 115), 1968.
“Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.”
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“One always finds time for what one likes.”

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