#dictionary

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled. ↗

— Will Cuppy

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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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Impossibility is a dictionary word. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

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