"If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice."
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"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."
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"The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute."
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"I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence."
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"One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art."
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"I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!"
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"You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany."
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"Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me."
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"To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it."
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"In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance."
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"Thought will not work except in silence."
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"Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates."
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"If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work."
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"Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it."
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"Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?"
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"I think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when you say, "no" or you have to say, "no" so often to the writing occasion, those occasions don't really come back."
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"Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones."
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"Silence 'tis awe decrees."
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"It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light."
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"Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker."
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