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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
Gary Lucas
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
Eric Zorn
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
George Crumb
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida 
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
Gary Lucas
47% of people like this quote
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
Eric Zorn
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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
George Crumb
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