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“Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.”
― How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
― How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
“Harrowhark said, in the exact sepulchral tones of Marshal Crux: “Death first to vultures and scavengers.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
“But then again, the dead are often easier to praise than the living.”
― A Skinful of Shadows
― A Skinful of Shadows
“She would not be what she is if she had ever had something given her that was a burden equal to her strength.”
― The Goblin Emperor
― The Goblin Emperor
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