Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints -- the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -- we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. - Harry Mathews

Famous Quotes / Harry Mathews

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Harry Mathews: "Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints -- the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -- we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents."

Harry Mathews's Quotations

Quotations about

Agents	Constraints	Doing	Language
Overwhelming	Rules	Slavish	Syntax
Talk	Think	Thinking	Using
Vocabulary

Quotes by Power Quotations