Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. (Jeanette Winterson)

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Jeanette Winterson

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