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• Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

  Anne Michaels

  Heart, Thinking, Blood

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.115, A&C Black

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• I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Moving, Reading

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Moving, Book

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

  Don Henley

  Writing, People, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

  George Meredith

  Book, Becoming, Diaries

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Skills, Numbers

  Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

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• How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doubt, Important, World

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• To convey one’s mood
  in seventeen syllables
  is very diffic

  John Cooper Clarke

  Mood, Seventeen

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• Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

  Louise Penny

  Love, Voice, Perfect

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.514, Macmillan

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• Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

  William Safire

  Fighting, Light, Years

  "Newswords" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Needs, Amplification

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Beautiful, Prayer, Flower

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• The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Book, Simple, Simplicity

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• I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Sound, Language

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.350, Routledge

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• "Nuclear" is nothing but trouble. Do you say "new-clear" or do you say "nuke-you-ler"? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

  Paul Feig

  Missing, Nukes, Faces

  "Test Marketing a New Term..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

  Jay Griffiths

  Buddhist, Believe, World

  "Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, Fate, Love Is

  John Keats, James Russell Lowell (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.17

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• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Asia

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.69

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• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  William Shenstone

  Sympathy, Coffee, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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• All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

  John Ruskin

  Song, Firsts, Lips

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm”, p.56

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• The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

  George Carlin

  Reality, Euphemism, Divorced

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• 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

  Iggy Azalea

  Dog, Azaleas, Names

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

  Hortense Calisher

  Wind, Sound, Bees

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• I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Play, Judging

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• Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.

  Julian Jaynes

  Reading, Matter, Hearing

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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