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"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences." ~ Aldous Huxley

Word Freak

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ~ Robert Burton

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy. ~ Sonia Choquette

All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ~ Ernest Hemingway

You can stroke people with words. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Words, they climb all over you/‘Til they uncover you From where you hide. ~ Peter Gabriel

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. ~ Gore Vidal

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed. ~ Roy Orbison

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. ~ Shirley MacLaine

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~ Robert Southey

Words will build no walls. ~ Plutarch

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire. ~ Joni Mitchell

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? ~ Marc Chagall

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums

A gentleman is ashamed that his words are better than his deeds. ~ Confucius

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ~ James Earl Jones, Voices and silences

I shape and keep words of worth with the art of love. ~ Course in Miracles

Words are loaded pistols. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. ~ Jessamyn West

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