Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and d…

Jeanette Winterson
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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 (2007). Sexing the Cherry, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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