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“I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no…

— Stephen Mitchell

“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Soundless speechless sorties of life.”

— Aporva Kala

“There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it. I…

— Wiley Cash

“The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of your own…

— Glen Duncan

“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating…

— Jennifer Dubois

“the audience will not remember the vast majority of what you say. But they will remember what they thought about what you said. And…

— Peter Coughter

“I am weary of all our sad stories—not hearing them, but that we have these stories to tell, that there are so many.”

— Roxane Gay

“You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give…

— Karen Lord

“Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which…

— Marcel Proust

“And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else’s. A little annoyance they acted out like a…

— Rohinton Mistry

“I was glad he didn’t try to come up with something encouraging to say. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of…

— Mia Sheridan