Core Vocabulary

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“Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.”
—John Guare (b. 1938)

“My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)