"Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law"

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Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.77, Columbia University Press

Ferdinand de Saussure

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“Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of oneâ€™s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.”
“I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.”
“She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.”
“Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. People looked at the slow pace and at big guys like George Mikan and said pro basketball was just for overgrown pituitary cases. Baseball and football were numbers one and two and pro basketball wasn't even in the same universe.”

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“A canvas is never empty.”
“You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.”
“Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.”
“The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.”

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