"If you donâ€™t like a language, you can go write your own."

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Helen DeWitt

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“Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense.”
“Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.”
“I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Avenue of the Dead”, p.50, Open Road Media
“Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.”
“Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.”
“I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.”
“I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.”

Source : "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.
“If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.”

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