“[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Telling the Truth (1977)
“There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.”
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
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