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• Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Thinking, Tact

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts”, p.37, Wildside Press LLC

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• In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

  Cesare Pavese

  Writing, Effort, Pages

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

  Langston Hughes

  Life, Music, Death

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.251, University of Missouri Press

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• Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Democracy, Ruling The World

  Song: Union Sundown, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wish, Conversation, Company

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.294

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• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  Walter Winchell

  Art, Gossip, Way

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• I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Fear, Communication

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• . . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS.... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who they are or are indifferent about their life in general, which is how I felt about myself when I wrote it. I had turned 40 and I was unhappy and I wanted to write about that. Dating just became the framework. . . . I like all those fringy, weird, nonverbal, quiet, tiny little things, those powerful interchanges between people, things that go unsaid, that people know are happening all the time but nobody wants to talk about. That's what I want to make movies about.

  Tom Noonan

  Powerful, Writing, Ideas

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• Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

  Robert Jordan

  Trouble

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.289, Macmillan

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• I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

  Monica Ali

  Leaving, Brain, Asking

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• I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

  Mariah Carey

  People, Details, Attention

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hurt, Air, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.565

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• The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.

  Semir Zeki

  Powerful, Imagination, Masters

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• Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

  Harland Miller

  Marriage, Successful, Differences

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• There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

  Juliette Binoche

  Children, Share, Needed

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• People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Band

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

  Louise Glück

  Writing, Great Power

  "Disruption, Hesitation, Silence". Article by Louise Glück, The American Poetry Review, Volume 22, No. 5, pp. 30-32, www.jstor.org. September-October 1993.

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• I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Growing Up, Fall, Grieving

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.35, Ballantine Books

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• I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

  Ariana Grande

  Missing, Everyday, Left

  Song: Better Left Unsaid, Album: Yours Truly, 2013

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• He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fire, Ice, Want

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• The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Duty, Left

  Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”

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• And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Times Like These, Bigs

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.142, Penguin Books India

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• A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

  Linda Hogan

  Song, Animal, Stories

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• The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'

  Matthew McConaughey

  Doors, Parks, Hello

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