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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
"It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights."
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
Explore more quotes by Edith Wharton
"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."
"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."
"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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