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• The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, May, Rise Above

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• The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Dust, Cities

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• For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.

  Xavier Forneret

  Revenge, Heart, Dark

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• I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

  Sylvia Porter

  Writing, Names, I've Learned

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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• Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

  William H. Stewart

  Wind, People, Hazards

  "The Insidious Health Risk You Need To Know About: Noise Pollution" by Carrie Sturrock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2017.

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• In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.

  Carl Honore

  Art, Media, Background Noise

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Song, Spring, Math

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• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  Michael Frayn

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Air, Convince Us

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.254, Vintage

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

  Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  Voice, Arrows, Bird

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• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

  Mark Haddon

  Distance, Father, Fall

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• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

  Richard Adams

  People, Bird, Records

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.112, Oneworld Publications

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• Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Real

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.14, Penguin

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• Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Cutting, Tunes, Action

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• A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Favors, May

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.90, Anchor

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• How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad.
  How sweet is yesterday's noise

  Charles Wright

  Sweet, Past, Yesterday

  Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, California

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Clouds

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• Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Moving, Sloth, Debate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Inspiration, Silence

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• Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To pass time in the desert means to create a little emptiness and silence around us, to rediscover the road to our heart, to remove ourselves from the noise and external distractions, to enter into contact with the deepest source of our being and our faith.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  George Woodward Warder

  Heaven, Would Be, Looks

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