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Silence Quotes
"It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights."
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"Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine."
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"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."
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"Share them with only people who can help you with information and support. When you meet negative people, zip your mouth."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
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"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
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"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
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"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
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"Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself."
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"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?"
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"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
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"Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings."
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"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
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"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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"When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination."
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"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."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
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"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."
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"I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born."
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"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
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"Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don't have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!"
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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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