“You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.”
Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 244
The Gods Themselves (1972)
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"Tallulah" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 399
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 109
Context: How would your life be different if … You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day … You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

Una parola o forma di dire non è buona perchè è nel Vocabulario, ma è nel Vocabulario perchè era buona anche prima di esservi.
XIX.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 434.
Paradossi

Letter to Mrs. Blumberg (27 September 1977)
Context: There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know precisely what he wants to say. If you have nothing to say and want badly to say it, then all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice.

the lowest thing I can think of at this time
Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

In the Collected Works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 490.
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Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)