Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
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Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.David Lodge
We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now that a shipload could bring in a bunch of invasive species into the Great Lakes.
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
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I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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