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Don DeLillo quote: "The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not..."
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. Don DeLillo
When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. "There they stand," said he to his heart; "there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears. Friedrich Nietzsche
She understood as women often do more easily than men, that the declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. Peter Carey
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus Harper Lee
Mrs. Deane was a thin-lipped woman, who made small well-considered speeches on peculiar occasions, repeating them afterwards to her husband, and asking him if she had not spoken very properly. George Eliot
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the..."
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. Joyce Carol Oates
Joseph Brodsky quote: "What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part...."
What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech Joseph Brodsky
Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it. Virginia Woolf
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself George Orwell
Anthony Kiedis quote: "It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was..."
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously. Anthony Kiedis
Jacques Lacan quote: "I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in..."
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. Jacques Lacan
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamily self-aware, the submicroscopic moments. Hesaid this more than once, Elster did, in more than one way. His life happened, he said, when he sat staring at a blank wall, thinking about dinner...He said we do this all the time, all of us, we become ourselves beneath the running thoughts and dim images, wondering idly when we'll... Don DeLillo
J. K. Rowling quote: "Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about..."
Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time. J. K. Rowling
By all appreciable signs, they loved; they had looked love, with eyes that conveyed the holy secret from the depths of one soul into the depths of the other, as if it were too sacred to be whispered by the way; they had even spoken love, in those gushes of passion when their spirits darted forth in articulated breath, like tongues of long-hidden flame; and yet there had been no seal of lips, no clasp of hands, nor any slightest caress, such as love claims and hallows. Nathaniel Hawthorne
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough. Anne Bronte

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