“If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?”
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“In the secret pocket, she often kept a smallpocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.”
“In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love”
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.”
“dictionary with unsaid words”