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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

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Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

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The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

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I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

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A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

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Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

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I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 4th, 1941

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