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"Krankzinnige onzin. Een handvol woorden genomen. Onzinnige dingen gezegd. Gewoon onzin, die nergens wat mee te maken heeft."

Gerard Reve - De avonden (1947), p. 278

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"Dat moment, wanneer ik ook begin te twijfelen aan alledaagse woorden, ik ze zo lang blijf herhalen tot het willekeurige letters blijken te zijn, en letters willekeurige vormen, tot niets meer met elkaar verbonden is; die gierende angst, als valwind rondom een wolkenkrabber."

Lize Spit - Autobiografie van mijn lichaam (2024), p. 106

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"Barf up some alphabet soup, and you might create a more useful text."

Brandon Sanderson - The Frugal Wizard's Handbook For Surviving Medieval England (2023), p. 153

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"He loved maps, as I have told you before; and he also liked runes and letters and cunning handwriting, though when he wrote himself it was a bit thin and spidery."

J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (1937), p. 52

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geert simonis peppa pig era X - things just ain't the same any time the hunter gets captured by the game

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"For here we find a language of immediate contact, a syntax of abrupt, lightning shifts that still manages to maintain a sense, and in their brevity, the sparse presence of their words, we are given a rare and early example of isolated words able to span the enormous mental spaces that lie between them - as if intelligible links could be created by the brute force of each word or phrase, so densely charged that these tiny particles of language could somehow leap out of themselves and catch hold of the succeeding cliff-edge of thought."

Paul Auster - The Red Notebook (1995), p. 84-85

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"The experience of a poem resides not only in each of its words, but in the interactions among those words - the music, the silences, the shapes - and if a reader is not somehow given the chance to enter the totality of that experience, he will remain cut off from the spirit of the original."

Paul Auster - The Red Notebook (1995), p. 76

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"Ikzelf heb in dezen wel een beetje lichtvaardig gehandeld, met een onstuimigheid die eigenlijk niet past bij mijn leeftijd."

Willem Elsschot - Pensioen (1937)

In: Verzameld Werk (2005), p. 626

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“I was in no kind of shape to memorize all the words I was speaking, so I’d read out of a newspaper with all the lyrics pasted inside.”

Keith Morris & Jim Ruland - My Damage - The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor (2016), p. 236

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"When I grieve my mind becomes a public domain for rhymes, fragments, phrases, bits of song. They surge into my ears and throat. They patter and intone until I arrange them to my own ends."

Margo Jefferson - Constructing a Nervous System (2022), p. 134