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“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

“When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.”

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Book:The True Deceiver

Source: The True Deceiver

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”

Time Literature Imagination Quiet Noses

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.”

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

“Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.”

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Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!”

Sometimes Dream Time Literature Quiet Streams

Author:Bryan Procter