“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”

— William Golding

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British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite… 1911–1993

Jay London (1966) American comedian

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“Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.”

Jean Dubuffet book Prospectus et tous écrits suivants

Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 94

“On a double-log plot, my grandmother fits on a straight line.”

Fritz Houtermans (1903–1966) German physicist

as quoted in Herbert Kroemer's Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2000/kroemer-autobio.html, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000.

“We do have jackets like that at the Palace of Wisdom.”

John Hennigan (1979) American professional wrestler

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“I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

Source: Paris Review interview (1972), p. 266

“Owning a portfolio of value stocks is the equivalent of wearing a Nehru jacket over a pair of bell bottom trousers.”

William J. Bernstein (1948) economist

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 1, No Guts, No Glory, p. 37.

“Art is about collecting experiences and expressing them. For me music and photography are similar art forms. I collect experiences, stir them in myself and express it in my own language. Just like my photography, music is my language.”

TY Bello Nigerian singer

Bio! TY Bello http://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/bio-ty-bello-id2789473.html

“You crawl over the onrushing piano passages in slow motion. Your fingers are in ten little steel strait-jackets….”

George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor

“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”

John Lyly book Euphues

P. 311 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xRbAAAAMAAJ&q="for+experience+teacheth+me+that+straight+trees+have+crooked+roots"&pg=PA311#v=onepage
Euphues and his England

“My favorite jacket is an emergency item. Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”

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