Tom Robbins Quotes on Language
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She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropican vowels.
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Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.
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Your friend insults the homeless by giving them no credit for having made the decisions that shaped their lives, and demeans them further by declaring them powerless to alter their situations. There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
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On the poor use of grammar It's a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It's our syntax that's limiting.
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'Nobody can say the word 'naked' as nakedly as Cohen.'
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'To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.'