Synonym Quotes

• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

  Burt Bacharach

  Funny, Writing, Sarcasm

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

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Writing, Use, Spells

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• For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

  Juliette Binoche

  Death, Habit

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• Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

  Dan Brown

  Google, Research

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.235, Random House

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

  Philip Guedalla

  Greatness, Great Success, Courteous

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

  Ben Hecht

  Movie, Art, Adventure

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Violation, Intercourse

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, World, Language

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Relationship, Happiness, Peace

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• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Stars, Night

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Keys, Awful

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.315, Anchor

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• Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

  Osamu Dazai

  Milk, Poetic, Wells

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

  Alfred de Musset

  Discovery, Disgrace

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• We are synonyms but not the same.

  Tahereh Mafi

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• Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

  Eloisa James

  Discretion

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• Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
  When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
  Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem
  To end it all and let who will survive;
  To find at last all beauty is but dust;
  That love and sorrow are the very same;
  That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;
  And sense is but the synonym of lust.
  Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;
  To set glad lips against the lips of Death--
  The only thing God gives that comforteth,
  The only thing we do not find a lie.

  Madison Cawein

  Death, Dream, Lying

  Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”

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• [talking about word "homophobia":] I myself don´t like "gays" - and let me stress that I don't consider that word a synonym for "homosexual" - in the same way that I don't like Communists and Feminists as advocates of a harmful and stupid ideology. But have no fear of them.

  Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

  Stress, Stupid, Gay

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• Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

  Jay Griffiths

  Opposites, Measurement, Facts

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Mean, Literature

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Dumb

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.168, Three Rivers Press

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• Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Eye, Needs

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2667, Ballantine Books

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• We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

  Lionel Shriver

  Agony, Might, Medical Profession

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

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• It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Giving, Faithful

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• We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Thinking, Light

  Source: app.longform.org

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