#construct

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#beyond #case #confines #constructed #content

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ↗

— Carol Shields

#construct #contained #discoveries #feelings #had

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ↗

— Charles Simic

#constructing #empty #i #inside #lighthouse

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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