#words

Words derive their power from the original word. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. ↗

— George Eliot

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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

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You can stroke people with words. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. ↗

— Ken Follett

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