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Fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.
— Guy Deutscher
Specificity is the soul of narrative.
— John Hodgman
change is not the exception but the rule.
— Guy Deutscher
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
— Andrew Jackson
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.
— Guy Deutscher
Word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.
— Guy Deutscher
There is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!
— Guy Deutscher
The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.
— Isaac Deutscher
I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.
— Isaac Deutscher
To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.
— Guy Deutscher
envisaged Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as men but Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday as women. Why should this be so?
— Guy Deutscher
Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
— Dick Van Dyke
Trees have roots, Jews have legs.
— Isaac Deutscher
There are many languages that don't make a distinction between green and blue and treat these as shades of one color.
— Guy Deutscher
Without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.
— Guy Deutscher
Since red is a signal for many vital things, most importantly danger (blood) and sex
— Guy Deutscher
Upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful. Eighteen years!
— Charles Dickens
O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.
— Elizabeth Prentiss
people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.
— Guy Deutscher
the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.
— Guy Deutscher
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
— Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed
— Isaac Deutscher
There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.
— Guy Deutscher