Quotes with silences

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• Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

  Bliss Carman
  Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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• I love your silences, they are like mine.

  Under a Glass Bell (1944)

  Anais Nin
  French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

  Samuel Beckett
  Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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• Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

  London: The Biography (2003)

  Peter Ackroyd
  English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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• The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

  Bob Newhart
  American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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• What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 41

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

  David Leavitt
  American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• destructive
• competently
• butterflies
• writer-and
• regretted
• anything

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