We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
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