“Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.” — Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting
Tag: silence
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“Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart.” — Phyllis McGinley, The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley
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“The difference between death and other forms of human experience lies in this, that we can gain no information about it. The dead man is wise, but he is silent.” — Alexander Smith, “Of Death and the Fear of Dying,” Dreamthorp
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“Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.” — Marion L. Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts
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“In the meantime let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent.” — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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“…so what could I say—well, volumes, really, but I didn’t, hoping that a brief silence would also be a deep and eloquent one.” — Simon Gray, The Smoking Diaries
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“There is much to be said for silence.” — Michael Wade, Random Thoughts
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“Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, “This… this…”; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech but sullen to say it; baffled silence; the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.” — Paul Goodman, Speaking and Language
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“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.” — Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, Truth of Intercourse, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
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