“Silence creates its own violence.”
Source: Annihilation
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Vol. II, p. 30
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: Attention involves seeing and hearing. We hear not only with our ears but also we are sensitive to the tones, the voice, to the implication of words, to hear without interference, to capture instantly the depth of a sound. Sound plays an extraordinary part in our lives: the sound of thunder, a flute playing in the distance, the unheard sound of the universe; the sound of silence, the sound of one’s own heart beating; the sound of a bird and the noise of a man walking on the pavement; the waterfall. The universe is filled with sound. This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.
“It’s just sex and violence, melody and silence.”
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Urban Hymns (1997)
“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.”
On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth https://books.google.com/books?id=KpZRDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq
“Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 215)
“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
“Violence is man re-creating himself.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter