“There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always.
If the music dies down there is a silence.
Almost the same as the movement of music.
To know silence perfectly is to know music.”
Source: Good Morning, America
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American writer and editor 1878–1967Related quotes
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Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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"The Rest is Silence"
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The Hands of the Father
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