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• Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

  Evan Esar

  Thinking, Insulting, May

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• He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.

  Angela Carter

  Dolls, Details, Language

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Eye, Hands, Voice

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• Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

  Jane Austen

  Dancing, Together, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2007). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Bethany House

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• To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Class, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.97, Psychology Press

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• Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like to spend your watch looking for the box where your head is kept, resist the urge to wax ignorant on her naughty bits." -Pocket I don't know what that means, sir." -Yeoman Speak not of Regan's shaggacity, son" [...] -Pocket

  Christopher Moore

  Daughter, Kings, Mean

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fool: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Giving, Misunderstood

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• You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Dream, Giving Up, Dying

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.311, Delacorte Press

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• ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Breathing, Heaven, Ego

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

  Aidan Chambers

  Names, Alive, Feels

  Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House

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• How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Stupid, Blame, Involved

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

  Audre Lorde

  Dust, Trying, Machines

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

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• What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sweet, Heart, Sunset

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Toms Cabin: Life Among the Lowly: Easyread Large Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1279, Delphi Classics

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• The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

  Stephen King

  Lying, Men, Two

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fate, Giving, Facts

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2009.

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• Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Nature, Health

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

  David Guterson

  Crazy, Thinking, Cedars

  "Fictional character: Ishmael Chambers". "Snow Falling on Cedars", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hurt, Grief, Healing

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• I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

  Gerard Way

  Lying, Next, Awake

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• Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

  Cormac McCarthy

  War, Heart, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.349, Pan Macmillan

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• When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

  John Steinbeck

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.229, Penguin

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• I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Unsaid, Left

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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