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Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter.…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea.…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get…
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
— Thomas Beecham
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists…
— Rajneesh
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear…
— Norman Mailer
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own…
— Joy Harjo
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
— William Butler Yeats
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
— Mother Teresa
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears;…
— William Shakespeare
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes;…
— William Gurnall
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