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“(That was another thing hearing people did—made too-large movements. It was tantamount to shouting.)”

— Lou Ann Walker

“How important could the sound it made be, if no one was able to hear it?”

— Michael Lewis

“Yamamoto was considered, both in Japan and the United States, as intelligent, capable, aggressive, and dangerous. Motivated by his skill as a poker player…

— Dale A. Jenkins

“The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn’t seem to squelch the…

— Richard Phillips

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“Deep down in our bones we must know - we must know that nothing we do is done in isolation. Cause and effect: how…

— Anna Krien

“There are men who cannot hear animals," he said. "And then there are men who cannot hear anything at all.”

— Mark Twain

“To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.”

— James Joyce

“His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his…

— Pat Frank

“Why was it that silence sometimes felt like a physical thing with a weight of its own?”

— Mary Balogh

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner