Power of words

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Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.

Zadie Smith

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Power of words Language

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Zadie Smith

Source

That Crafty Feeling Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Smith, Zadie. "That Crafty Feeling." 24 Mar. 2008, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA. Lecture.

The words we use are the worlds we live in.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford

Source

Rumpus

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Ford, Richard. "The Rumpus Interview with Richard Ford." Interviewed by Ben Pfeiffer. Rumpus, Nov. 26, 2014, therumpus.net/2014/11/the-rumpus-interview-with-richard-ford/

There is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

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Joseph Conrad

Source

Lord Jim

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1900 1900s 19th century

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Conrad, Joseph. "Lord Jim: A Sketch." Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, Oct. 1899-Nov. 1900.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

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Power of words Language Drugs

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Surgeons and the Soul

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." The Royal College of Surgeons Annual Dinner. 14 Feb. 1923, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." A Book of Words. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.

Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Power of words Power of literature Literature Writing

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Journal entry. 18 May 1848.

I've always sensed that language is the great liberator. The fitting phrase, the precise word-these permit us to be more nearly ourselves.

Carol Shields

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Power of words Language

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Carol Shields

Source

Larry's Party

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Shields, Carol. "An Interview with Carol Shields from Penguin.com," author's website, n.d., http://www.carol-shields.com/larryspartyinterview.pdf.

Words…are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is Literature?

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Power of words

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Brice Parain

Author

Jean-Paul Sartre

Source

What is Literature?

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Sartre, Jean Paul. Qu'est-ce que la littérature? [What is Literature?]. Situations, II. Gallimard, 1948, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Sartre, Jean Paul. What is Literature? Routledge, 2001, ch. 1.

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Power of words Power of literature Literature Writing

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Lahiri, Jhumpa. "My Life's Sentences." Opinionator (blog). New York Times, 17 Mar. 2012, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/my-lifes-sentences.

A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

John Steinbeck

Quoted in Paris Review

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Power of words Meaning of words Words

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John Steinbeck

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Steinbeck, John. "John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45." Interviewed by Nathaniel Benchley. The Paris Review, Fall 1969. Originally was published in "In Awe of Words." Exonian, 3 Mar. 1954.