“Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.” HumanityLanguageCenturyWallBuiltImpulseDestructive Book:Parthian Words Source: Parthian Words
“The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.” WritingRealityLeftLanguageGrowsImpossibleBonesSentencesMistrustSkeletonsHardnessOne Sentence Book:No time like the present Source: No time like the present
“Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.” PersonsLiteratureLanguagePoliticianAuthorityCeaseRottenAdvertisers Book:Parthian Words Source: Parthian Words
“Language is memory and metaphor.” LanguageMemoriesMetaphor Book:Parthian Words Source: Parthian Words