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Silence Quotes
"Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion."
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"I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall."
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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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"One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence."
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"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
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"It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights."
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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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"Shhhhhhhh..... Be silent. Silence your mind and listen.... Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine!"
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
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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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"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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"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
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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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"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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"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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"I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said."
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"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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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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