"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
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"Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone."
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"The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'"
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"There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all."
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"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
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"A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music."
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"The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely."
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"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life."
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"In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves."
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"We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise."
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"Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet."
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"The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness."
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"In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness."
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"Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise."
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"Rock stars are good at making noise."
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"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises."
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"Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty."
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"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise."
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"But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song."
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