"As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!"

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Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.189, Spectra

Sheri S. Tepper

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“I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.”
“I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.”
“I like the classic look. Keep it simple. Thereâ€™s only so much you can wear.”
“I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.”

Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.
“Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.”
“Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?”

Source : James Thomas Fields (1849). “Poems”, p.34
“I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.”
“SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do, For all my world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you.”

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