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• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Grief, Silence

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

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• Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Forever, Priests

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• For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

  Francoise Sagan

  Desire, Vitality, Needs

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Needs, Looks, Subtle

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• Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Wish, Easier, Sharp Words

  R. D. Blackmore (2006). “Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Feelings, Unforgettable

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• Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

  Amy Waldman

  Home, Asking Why, Worry

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Love, Religion, Three

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

  Bradley Nowell

  Life, Night, Good Words

  "Song: "Don't Push"". "40 Oz. to Freedom", June 1, 1992.

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• Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

  Shirin Neshat

  Art, Women, Islamic

  Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

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• It seems so much of my time and my energy have been focused on making or trying to make other people love me. The unspoken belief was that if I could make myself lovable to others I would feel loved....The truth is, I can only feel loved by others when I love myself.

  Kimberly Kirberger

  People, Trying, Energy

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• A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

  Russell Sherman

  Art, Balance, Sheets

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• Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ideas, Two, Long

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.846, e-artnow

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• There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.

  Stephen Karam

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We're very yin and yang, neither one of us really treads on each other's toes. She's this wizard of the rhythm world, and I know nothing about that, but I can dabble with melody and lyrics and that's something she doesn't really have any interest in. We complement each other in that way.

  Taraka Larson

  Yang, Wizards, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

  James Ellroy

  Thinking, Self, Males

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws of that one precept are: to write, you must start writing and then finish writing. And then, most likely, start writing all over again because this writing "thing" is one long and endless ride on a really weird (but pretty awesome) carousel. Cue the calliope music.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Successful, Law

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• There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Thinking, Expression, Talking

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of, that affect who's hired, and who gets loans, and how kids are treated in school. But it's a powerful thing if you have on your side an idea that the overwhelming majority of people believe in because that's how you can build a consensus that's lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Believe, School

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

  Adyashanti

  Way, Causes, Connected

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• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wine, Thoughtful, Men

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• There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Sex, Self, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

  Mason Cooley

  Sacrifice, Self, Demand

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• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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