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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing wha
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan
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