#dictionary

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. ↗

— Elgin Baylor

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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

The word impossible is not in my dictionary. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#impossible #word

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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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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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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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. ↗

— David Jones

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