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  1. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
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  2. Mark Helprin _ A Soldier of the Great War

    It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.
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  3. Annie Dillard _ Teaching a Stone to Talk:

    Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance...
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  4. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
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  5. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
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  6. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    {The modern age} knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead."
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  7. D.H. Lawrence

    There is nothing to save, now all is lost
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