"There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family."

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Nicole Krauss

#People Quotes #Silence Quotes #Way Quotes

“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.”
“I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.”
“A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.”
“I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?”

Source : Song: Microphone Fiend
“I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.”
“We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.”
“Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.”
“The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.”

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