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• Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

  Lydia Millet

  Book, Unique, Grace

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• I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."

  Cesar Milstein

  Science, Imagination, Worry

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• Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Husband, Book, Long

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Secret, Mind, Persons

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• His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

  Will Rogers, Jr.

  Children, Father, Men

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• The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wise, Book, Wine

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• No one else can feel it for you
  Only you can let it in
  No one else, no one else
  Can speak the words on your lips
  Drench yourself in words unspoken
  Live your life with arms wide open
  Today is where your book begins
  The rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Life, Book, Arms

  "Unwritten". Song by Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, Wayne Rodrigues, 2004.

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• But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

  Miljenko Jergovic

  Sleep, Fighting, Silence

  Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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• Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).

  Derrick Bell

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

  Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.5, Basic Books

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• In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Religious, Focus

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• Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Gun, Race, Ideas

  "This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2016.

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• One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Country, Ignorance, Intellectual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

  Peggy Noonan

  Thinking, Government, Air

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• When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

  Sidney Poitier

  Pace, Walks, Happens

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• Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

  Matthew Pearl

  Eye, Ideas, Romance

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• It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.

  Mark Hart

  Comfort, Ministry, Spouse

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.11, Franciscan Media

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• There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.

  Glen Hansard

  Nice, Jeans, Dresses

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

  Eva Longoria

  Ex Boyfriend, Periods, Unspoken Rules

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Powerful, Talking, Silence

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• The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Communication, Triumph, Phrases

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• It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Sight, Giving

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.

  Alice Steinbach

  Giving Up, School, Order

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• Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.

  Tom Upton

  Promise, Would Be, Lasts

  Tom Upton (2008). “Mourning Doves”, p.139, Tom Upton

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• There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

  Neal Shusterman

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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