| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16075 |
| QUOTATION: | Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paul Deman (1919–1983), Belgian-born U.S. literary critic. repr. In Blindness and Insight (1971, revised 1983). “The Rhetoric of Temporality,” sect. 2, first published in Interpretation, ed. Charles Singelton (1969). |
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