“We walked between the rows of sewing machines, cutting tables, defunct steam pressers. There is nothing more quiet than a still factory.”
Leonard Cohen
more infosource: Beautiful Losers (New York: Vintage, 1993), 42.
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category: factory, quiet, silence
medium: Fiction
“We sit in a silence it’s hard not to scribble in with chat.”
Mary Karr
more info“When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold.”
Jeanette Winterson
more infosource: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (New York: Grove Press, 2011), 8.
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category: creative process, silence, story, writing
medium: Memoir
“…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
more infosource: The Smoking Diaries (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005), 53.
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category: silence
medium: Memoir
“I’d rather not talk at all, to be honest with you.”
Troy Polamalu
more infosource: “A Defensive Anchor Walks a Spiritual Path,” by Karen Krouse, The New York Times, January 12, 2011.
category: football, silence, spirituality, sports, talk
medium: newspaper article
“You can be in the middle of a creative meeting at your job or something, and enough material can rush through your head just in the little silences when people are looking over their notes and waiting for the next presentation that it would take exponentially longer than the whole meeting just to try to put a few seconds’ silence’s flood of thoughts into words.”
David Foster Wallace
more infosource: “Good Old Neon,” in Oblivion: Stories (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004), 150.
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category: meeting, silence, words
medium: fiction
“I just never had that thing with women. I would do it silently. Very Charlie Chaplin. The scratch, the look, the body language. Get my drift? Now it’s up to you. ‘Hey, baby’ is just not my come-on.”
Keith Richards
more infosource: Life (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010), 425.
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medium: Memoir
notes: written with James Fox
“Try not to speak.”
Sir Arthur John Gielgud
more infosource: Arthur, Orion Pictures (1981)
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category: conversation, film quotes, listen, silence, speak, talk
medium: film
notes: Arthur was written and directed by Steven Gordon
“There is a time for many words and there is a time for sleep.”
Homer
more infosource: The Odyssey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 136.
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category: conversation, silence, sleep, tired, words
medium: epic poetry
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