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The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.7, The Floating Press

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1556, Bantam

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.405

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

"Upton to revisit light bulb ban" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. November 18, 2010.