#dictionary

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half the words are missing.” “Half?” “Well, some,” she amended. “But truly, that’s not the problem.” He blinked, waiting for her to continue. She did. Of course. “I don’t think Italian is the author’s native tongue,” she said. “The author of the dictionary?” he queried. “Yes. It’s not terribly idiomatic. ↗

— Julia Quinn

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So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling. ↗

— David Levithan

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But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last. ↗

— David Levithan

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Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. ↗

— William Safire

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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When I say, Be my lover, I don't mean, Let's have an affair. I don't mean, Sleep with me. I don't mean, Be my secret. I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you. ↗

— David Levithan

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