"Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)"

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Source : Maurice Blanchot (1999). “Awaiting Oblivion”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

Maurice Blanchot

“This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.”
“Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.”
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...”
“A novel means a new way of doing a story”
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing”

Source : Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.133, Oberon Books
“Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.”
“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”

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