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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “Patricia McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume One: In the Forests of Serre, Alphabet of Thorn, The Bell at Sealey Head”, p.56, Hachette UK
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.