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Memorable words

Quotations can mean many things and be used in many different ways. Some express a truth which once said seems so obvious that it becomes a proverb, such as William Cowper’s ‘Variety’s the very spice of life’ or Alexander Pope’s ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. Others are used in contexts where they start to collect a whole new range of associations, such as George Orwell’s ‘Big brother is watching you’, which originated in an ominous political context, and now is widely understood primarily in terms of reality television. It was Rudyard Kipling who said ‘He swathed himself in quotations.

January 3, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized

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