"In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot."

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Source : Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

Czeslaw Milosz

#Integrity Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.”
“Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres--and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.
“The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.”
“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
“A query letter should be like a skirt.Â Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.”
“Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.”
“I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.”

Source : "1996 Guitar World Interview: Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains Discusses Songwriting and Band's New Self-Titled Album". Interview with Jeff Gilbert and Andy Aledort, www.guitarworld.com. November 15, 2011.
“It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.”

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