"A good indignation makes an excellent speech."
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"Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching."
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"Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech."
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"I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully."
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"The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech."
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"As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice."
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"Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them."
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"When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment."
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"Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal."
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"Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite."
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"The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!"
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"Song is the heroics of speech."
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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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"In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce."
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"Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time."
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"Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain"
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"Speech is the index of the mind."
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"Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me."
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"Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came"
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"One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable."
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