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  1. Marshall McLuhan _ The Medium is the Massage

    Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.
    book-quotereadingwritingspeech

  2. Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater One"

    In the way of a reflection of my family and friends I mused at the number of people that I encountered during the past 85 years. Everyone here has played an important part but there have been others, many of whom have now passed across the horizon of life, however the purpose of my reminiscing is to share happy thoughts while at the same time take a peek into the future.I can look back to those first few glimpses of my life and find my grandmother Ohme, Gertrude Thieme standing at what I perceived to be a high kitchen counter making sandwiches using a slice of almost not eatable German black bread they called schwartsbrod. With great care she laden it with lard, blootwurst or sometimes liberwurst, topped with the half of a crusty Keiser roll. I always got the heel of the roll, with a quarter lengthwise slice of a crunchy dill pickle. It was the first and last time I remember seeing her before she returned to Germany and the war
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  3. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.
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  4. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    {T}he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
    book-quotemusicspeechmadame-bovary

  5. L.M. Montgomery _ Kilmeny of the Orchard

    More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
    book-quotespeech

  6. Bill Bryson _ The Mother Tongue: English and

    Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.
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  7. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.
    book-quotepoliticsreligionspeech

  8. Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth

    How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying." And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets, and in a very short time they arrived at the royal palace."
    book-quotespeechwordplay

  9. Oliver Sacks _ Seeing Voices

    We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
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  10. Sarah J. Maas _ Kingdom of Ash

    No self-righteous speeches?""This is war," he said simply. "We're past that sort of thing.
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  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness

    His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back into it. He spoke from his marrow. It made what he said a solemn compliment, which she accepted gratefully...
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  12. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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