"Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead."

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Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

Stanley Fish

#Giving Quotes #Perception Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.”
“Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.”
“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.”
“there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC
“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere”
“...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.”
“I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.”
“I am infected with your stupidity.”

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