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“Stubbornness makes a dictionary reliable and also gives it a certain charm. Working on a dictionary for the first time taught me that.”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
“I guess words, and dictionaries, must always exist in the narrow, perilous space between individual and authority, internal freedom and public governance.”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
“Maybe there’s no way around it, but I don’t think either men or women appreciate being defined in terms of pregnancy. There are such people as hermaphrodites, and I just think there should be a little more leeway in the definition. Something like, ‘The gender that is not male. Also, those who so identify themselves.”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
“they see a dictionary as a way to enhance national prestige. Language helps form a sense of national identity, and, to a certain degree, unification and control of language are necessary to bring a nation together.”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
“A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope, wrought”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
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