"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

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"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

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"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."

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"At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood."

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"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

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"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."

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"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

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