Silence is a text easy to misread.

—A. A. Attanasio

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About A. A. Attanasio

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Alfred Angelo Attanasio (born September 20, 1951) is an American fantasy and science fiction author. His science fiction novel Radix, winner of the French literary award, the Prix Cosmos 2000, was also nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Three more novels followed, In Other Worlds, Arc of...

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

—Hugh Elliott

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

—Edith Sitwell

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Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

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