The writer's language is to ...

The writer\'s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
 Paul de Man

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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
 Paul de Man