"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."

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Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.277, Walter de Gruyter

Edward Sapir

#Expression Quotes #Language Quotes #Social Quotes

“I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.”
“I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.”
“Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.”
“After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.”
“If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"”
“It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.”

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