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Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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20 Dec '14 11:56:03 PM

Cynic freedom: 'To use any place for any purpose'.

16 Dec '14 10:45:48 PM

'Women writing in the "I" fight the specter of the diary, which saps their authority and saddles them with the obligation to be both a good author and a good subject.'

12 Dec '14 04:19:59 AM

'But now I say nothing. I'm not an electrician anymore.'

11 Dec '14 04:47:53 PM

'… in the journals, the effort of it appears again and again…'

10 Dec '14 06:07:29 AM

'… the imperatives of conception might make it necessary to improvise at great length.'

9 Dec '14 09:38:27 PM

'Robots in human form'

8 Dec '14 07:56:32 PM

'What a park can become, or how a street behaves, are always open questions rarely asked outside or extreme circumstances.'

4 Dec '14 01:54:24 AM

'By contrast, a woman’s decision to detach herself from conventional society always requires justification.'

3 Dec '14 07:04:41 PM

'The absolute need to read with a pen in one's hand'