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“The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.”

States Form Speak Church Silence Authority Elements Logic Raised Architecture Multitudes Majesty Palaces Monument Church And State Cathedrals Dams Shady

Author:Georges Bataille

“Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.”

Wells Ends Might Silence Greatness Source Elements Ocean Transcendental

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.”

Art Silence Elements Works Of Art

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.”

Moving Mother Prayer Results Silence Elements Silent Obscure Mould Deepest Life

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.”

Art Said Silence Expression Elements Technique Contradiction Devices Works Of Art Avoidance

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.”

Writing Character Stories Suffering Silence Elements Tradition Drinking Divorce Aesthetic Shed Realist Tobias Manliness Carver

Author:Jess Row

“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.”

“Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.”

Men Silence Worst Elements Twins Pillars Compliance

Author:Michael Kimmel

“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”