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• Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I can't verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Important, Definitions

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong time, but then, you take a breath all the way from the center of the earth and blow. All that heartache is forgiven. All that love we humans carry makes a sweet, deep sound and we fly a little.

  Joy Harjo

  Sweet, Blow, People

  FaceBook post by Joy Harjo from Mar 05, 2013

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• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  Charles Baxter

  Two, Say Anything, Problem

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.77, Vintage

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• The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Impossible

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Simple, Sight

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

  Lawrence Welk

  Laughing, Lines, Forget

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

  Haruki Murakami

  Confused, Talking, Two

  Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

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• Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?" "Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?" "A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hands, Should Have, Adequate

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.869, Penguin

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• This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dark, Mouths, Scent

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Opposites, Two

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• Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love; there is nothing against devotion. No-devotion is not against devotion, it is just absence. So when someone says, "I am devoted to Rama," really he is using a wrong word. If he loves Rama, then he cannot love Krishna. If someone says, "I am devoted to Krishna," then he cannot love Christ. He is using a wrong word. He is continuing the love phenomenon; it is not devotion.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Rama, Christ

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• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

  Peter Ustinov

  Giving, Age, Credit

  1952 BBC radio broadcast, Feb.

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• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

  Virginia Woolf

  Simple, Style, Use

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

  Norman Foster

  Practice, Creative, Directors

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• One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is exactly the wrong word to describe this chapter. This chapter will make nothing clear; it will raise many questions; and it may even contain a surprise or two. But I say we call it the denouement anyway because the words sounds so sophisticated and French.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Two, Finals, May

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.193, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

  Grace Paley

  Art, Want, Pressure

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• I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.

  Henry Holmes Smith

  Girl, Thinking, Mind

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• Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

  Ken Auletta

  Objectivity, Fairness, Strive

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• People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.

  Eric Fellner

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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