“I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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“I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.”
“there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Source: The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Psalm 58.
Commentaries
Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“3657. None so deaf, as he that will not hear.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”
As quoted in Awakening Indians to India (2008), p. 82
Context: If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Source: Life of Pi
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)