Ursula Dubosarsky Quotes
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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They came out into the sunshine and the wind, one after the other like dice falling from a cup.
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The year began with the hanging of one man and ended with the drowning of another.
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Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
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Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.
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And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.
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I had never heard Ellery laugh before, not out loud. I loved the sound, it filled me up. It tinkled like a magic bird.
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Hilda was philosophical. That means you think everything will turn out for best, according to my father. Or if you don't actually think it, you pretend to.