#dictionary

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

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

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. ↗

— Dave Barry

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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. ↗

— Dave Barry

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The word impossible is not in my dictionary. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#impossible #word

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

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Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary. ↗

— John Wooden

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ↗

— Steven Wright

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