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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Speech is the small change of silence.