130 Quotes About Wordplay
- Author Criss Jami
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This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.
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- Author Stefanos Livos
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These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.
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- Author Criss Jami
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Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
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- Author novalis
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
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- Author Rupert Spira
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No formulation of the reality of experience is completely true. Once we acknowledge this, we relieve words of the impossible burden of trying to express the nature of experience and, as a result, leave them free to be spoken and heard in playful and creative ways that evoke Reality itself without trying to frame or grasp it.
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- Author J.S. Mason
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But before the man could reach the door, there was a knock, like one that happens to precipitate a courtship meeting for two punctuation marks that are going out to dinner and one really doesn’t like the restaurant, but goes anyway because they’re a comma dating.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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Leave your incidental Dick.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot,” he added, helpfully.
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- Author J.S. Mason
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even that store with a counter-productive name that must have been created by a linguist, called ‘Tattalso parlor’ in lieu of the much more conventional ‘Tattoo’.
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