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Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 Quotes: Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.
         

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.


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