A Quote by John C. Hawkes

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

John C. Hawkes

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John C. Hawkes
American - Writer
August 17, 1925 - May 15, 1998

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Jorge Luis Borges

When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.

Anita Moorjani

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Karl Marx

Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

William of Ockham

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

Derrick Jensen

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

John Piper

Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.

Jonis Agee

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

Socrates

I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

Vladimir Nabokov

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

John Dewey

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.

Howard Jacobson

There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to speak. And the word is truth. And in every language it means exactly the same thing. Truth is . . . what you get other people to believe.

Tommy Smothers

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

Paulo Freire

If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing that it exists, and the only thing I know are jokes about it.

Donald Sutherland

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