Syllables Quotes
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We are only syllables of the perfect Word.
Caryll Houselander
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I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I know, and I try to roll all sounds into one, to accumulate more and more syllables, as if they might make a Möbius strip of language in which everything, everything is contained. There is a hidden rule even in this game, though - that the sounds have to resemble real syllables, that they can't disintegrate into brute noise, for then I wouldn't be talking at all. I want articulation - but articulation that says the whole world at once.
Eva Hoffman
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Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
Evan Esar
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You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
Lois McMaster
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
Norton Juster
