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"Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
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"When gossip starts, be deaf."
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"Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
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"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
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"Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?"
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"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"
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"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
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"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Time
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
Day
"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
Life
"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
Literature
"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
Innocence
"Ignorance of mortality is a comfort."
Philosophy
"I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of getting, or achieving, anything that I long for will always be gravely reduced by the interminable existence of that block."
Sensitivity
"The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation."
Social
"To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy."
History
"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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