"Silence is a text easy to misread."

--

Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism

A.A. Attanasio

#Silence Quotes #Easy Quotes #Silence Is Quotes

“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.”
“The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.”
“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.”

Source : "A Letter from David Miscavige" by Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, St Petersburg Times, June 23, 2009.
“O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?”
“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE
“Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.”
“There are thoughts we must not think”

You may also like:

A. Bartlett Giamatti
Commissioner of Baseball
A. E. van Vogt
Author
Alan Dean Foster
Author
Angie Sage
Author
Antoine Rivarol
Writer
Bill Vaughan
Author
Chet Williamson
Author
Frederik Pohl
Writer
Poppy Z. Brite
Author