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• The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

  Jay Griffiths

  Loss, Mind, World

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Night, Quiet, Talk To Me

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• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  Kate Adie

  Democracy, Information, Literature

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• London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

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• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  Carla Bruni

  Solitude

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• I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Facts, Love To Read

  "Giancarlo Esposito On ‘Revolution,’ His Emmy Nomination And ‘Breaking Bad" By Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

  Bob Dylan

  Faithful, Quality, Violence

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Fall, Angel

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• The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Facts, Fit

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Risk, Policy, Ifs

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• Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Writing, Mind

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• Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

  David Bowie

  Running, People, Together

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• Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Mother, Taken

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press

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• Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

  Billy Joel

  Adages, Code, Following

  Song: Code Of Silence, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Fall, Loss

  Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien,

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• My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Parent, Cold

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• I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Emptiness, Ifs

  "Director Tom Hooper Exclusive Interview THE KING’S SPEECH". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 26, 2010.

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• Some things we must pass over in silence.

  Greg Iles

  Greg Iles (2006). “Turning Angel: A Novel”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Moon, Night

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• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  Rachel Kushner

  Way, Persons, Interiors

  "Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2013.

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• I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Moving, Slavery, Too Much

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• The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  Karel Capek

  Sports, Honesty, Gentleman

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• When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

  Steve Kazee

  Thinking, Virginia, Play

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• Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

  Michelle Malkin

  Speak, Surrender, Complicity

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