After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
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Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
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Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it.
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He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.
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