"Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state.……" — Norman Mailer
"Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before."
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation?…
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what…
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of…
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together…
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I…
— 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…
— 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…
— William Gurnall
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Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God…
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