Henry Bromell Quotes

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Speech is the small change of silence.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

All I have is a voice.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.