"It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code."

-- William Stafford

#Secret Quotes #Use Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.”
“America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.”

Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.
“Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.”
“ThrÃ©e maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.”
“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
“Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.”
“It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women were choosing an overt misogynist [Donald Trump] over the first woman president. Someone will have to explain that one to me someday.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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