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Quotes from How to Do Things with Words — J. L. Austin

1911–1960 England

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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

How to Do Things with Words (1975)

There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

How to Do Things with Words (1975)

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