"I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too."

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Source : "Writers attack 'overrated' Anglo-American literature at Jaipur festival" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.

Xiaolu Guo

#Dubious Quotes #Language Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.”
“You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.”
“Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.”
“Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.”
“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.”
“A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub

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