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Word your words accordingly. We use words to describe paintings, music and other forms of art. How can you use a form of art to describe itself? This is the world of words.

Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no matter what they are, no matter what they do, then those of us who love particular people for particular reasons had better find ourselves a new word.

God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut

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