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#inadequacy

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If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.


Edward Hopper


#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.


Lish McBride


#high-school #inadequacy #life #lost #life

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.


Will Self


#exposure #inadequacy #prose #self-criticism #writing

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.


Aldous Huxley


#inadequacy-of-words #language #communication

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.


Rumi


#celaleddin #inadequacy-of-words #inner #language #mawlana

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.


Italo Calvino


#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.


William Faulkner


#salvation #sin #words #salvation

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.


Mary Daly


#evil #front #god #ignorance #inadequacy

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.


Rowan Williams


#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.


Simon LeBon


#country #feeling #foreign #inadequacy #invasion






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