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In a novel or a movie, it’s often silence that communicates what cannot be said through words.

— Kathleen Alcalá Fiction Writers Review (2021)

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She could drop her shyness the way she dropped it to recite a speech or a poem, then step back into it like a cloak.

When children went every day to school to learn to live in a world that no longer existed.

After all, what is the passing of time but a diamond turned to dust?

This is how they took back the world - step by step, song by song.

In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other.

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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