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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

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James Grover Thurber

United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)

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    每個作者都知道,我們的語言是,可危的語言,其中最薄弱的陰影線常常使肯定與否定,感覺與廢話以及一種性別與另一種性別分隔開。

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