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Quotes › Authors › A › Anne Sexton › The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp kni
  • The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

    Anne Sexton: The tongue, the Chinese say, 
 is like a sharp knife: 
 it kills 
 without drawing blood.
    Anne Sexton
    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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