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"(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
'How do you find America?'
'Turn left at Greenland.'"
— Ringo Starr
'How do you find America?'
'Turn left at Greenland.'"
— Ringo Starr
"(When asked to use "horticulture" in a sentence) You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)
"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."
— Julio Cortázar (Around the Day in Eighty Worlds)
— Julio Cortázar (Around the Day in Eighty Worlds)
"One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand"
— Novalis
— Novalis
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