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Laurie Halse Anderson
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)
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Laurie Halse Anderson
"It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. "
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)
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Laurie Halse Anderson
"I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)
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Banksy
"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can
make someone smile while they're having a piss."
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)
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"I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live."
— BIBLE SOCIETY
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Stephenie Meyer
"His words came out half-strangled. You...were...risking your life...to hear-""
— Stephenie Meyer
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"There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel."
— Charles Baxter (Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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"There is art in my fingertips,
a poem in my head,
a song brushing past my lips,
a piano being fed.

A mic waiting to be held,
a pen waiting to be used;
Waiting for the perfect hand
and a voice to be felt.

This is: EMOTION"
— Melinda Pitkin
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Anna Quindlen
"Speech is the voice of the heart."
— Anna Quindlen
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"Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony:

A voice,
I will send.
Hear me!
The land
All over,
A voice
I am sending!
Hear me!
I will live! "
— Frances Densmore (American Indians and Their Music)
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Janet Fitch
"His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute."
— Janet Fitch (White Oleander)
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Vera Nazarian
"A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song."
— Vera Nazarian
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Ronald Reagan
"A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. "
— Ronald Reagan
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Stanisław Lem
"And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread."
— Stanisław Lem (His Master's Voice)
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Muriel Spark
"I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. "
— Muriel Spark
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