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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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'… a vibrant intellectual culture needs both specialists willing to entertain the questions of amateurs, and amateurs willing to question specialists'
Brandy Clark captures desperation: 'if one won't work, then another one will'.
'[T]o break the domination of the word over the human spirit'—not the most trustworthy-sounding words for declaring the aim of one's treatment of language.