What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Josh Billings

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The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.

Mike Bell

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Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

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You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

George Clooney

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I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

Octavia E. Butler

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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Lao Tzu

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Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him.

Mary Lascelles

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Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

Toni Morrison

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Self-consciousness kills communication.

Rick Steves

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