#adequacy

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. ↗

— Mary Daly

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#evil #front #god #ignorance #inadequacy

He had delusions of adequacy. ↗

— Walter Kerr

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#delusions #had