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— Colum McCann"Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't."
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)
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