“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“A mind, lean in its own language. In others, it gets fat.”
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 48
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
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Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,… 1905–1994Related quotes
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Toni Morrison
(1931–2019) American writer
Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
Context: A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.