Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their …

Salman Rushdie
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking
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