Adriana Trigiani Quotes, Writing Quotes, Silence Quotes

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Song Quotes , Silence Quotes

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Silence Quotes , Enough Quotes

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Father Quotes , Silence Quotes

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Silence Quotes , Tree Quotes

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , People Quotes , Silence Quotes

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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