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Joan Didion
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Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
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Michel de Montaigne :
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein :
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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Carl Sandburg :
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.
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William Ewart Gladstone :
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
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William Cobbett :
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Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
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There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
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