"The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Night Quotes #Silence Quotes #Musical Quotes

“Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.”
“In planning an attack, persons have various roles.”
“In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.”
“Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.”

Source : "Lena Dunham’s Feminist Week: From SNL to SXSW" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. March 11, 2014.
“What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.”
“I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but there's The Defenders.”

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