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What am I doing when I feel most powerfully that I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing?
“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“he sometimes wished he had a mind like JB’s, one that could create stories that would delight others, instead of the mind he did have, which was always searching for an explanation, an explanation that, while perhaps correct, was empty of romance, of fancy, of wit.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“The word ‘immigrant’ is an American invention. Migration of people had occurred in the Old World but in the New it was the single common defining experience.”
― The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
― The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
“in Israel it is said that God himself would not get promotion in any science department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Why not? Because he has only one publication—and it was not written in English.”
― Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
― Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
“Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.”
― The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
― The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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