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Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like th...more

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What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happ...more