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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

但是如果思想腐化了语言，语言也能腐化思想。

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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

语言是政治。这就是为什么你和我，我的兄弟姐妹，这就是为什么我们应该把我们的自然自我扼杀在奇怪的，撒谎的，野蛮的，不真实的，白人的演讲和写作习惯中，就像学校制定的神圣的法律一样。

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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

对我来说，具体的诗歌是一种特殊的使用语言的方式，产生于一种特殊的感觉，我无法控制这种感觉是否存在于我的内心。

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

说话要得体，尽量少说话，但一定要简明扼要;因为言语的结局，不是炫耀，乃是叫人明白。

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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

我相信言论自由，但我认为我们也应该有权评论言论自由。

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