"English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Use Quotes #Dialect Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling”
“I really enjoy being an actor!”
“A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.”
“We cannot kill our way to victory.”
“The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.”
“If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.177, iUniverse
“Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2002). “Cats with Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection : Everything Here is Mine · My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-boned”, Gramercy
“Defy the crowd. The crowd isnâ€™t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.”

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