"Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation."

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Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

Dorothy Richardson

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“God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.”

Source : Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain
“A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.64, Pickle Partners Publishing
“For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.”
“Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.”

Source : Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr
“You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part--don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.”
“I do not enjoy when people don't like me.”
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.
“If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.”

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