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"I continued to protect him with my silence."
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"There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud."
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"One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence."
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"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence."
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"Silence is best."
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"The most profound statements are often said in silence."
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"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
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"Silence is more than observation, it informs from non-observation."
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"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
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"Once out from it, never made a sound. Without sound, you never know who dies and who know so you dare?"
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"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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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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"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity."
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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
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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 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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"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
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"My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?"
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"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
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"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."
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