In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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1942-05-04Cesare Pavese
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
Henry S. Haskins
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
I would keep writing even without the eventual possibility of glory. Really, with writing, the idea that I was going to be able to support myself was a long shot. I’m living off my writing now, without grants or a part time job, and it feels so tenuous. It could go downhill tomorrow, you know? I was writing before I thought it was even a real possibility to support myself with my writing, and I’ll keep writing after it becomes clear that it isn’t a real possibility after all. Not because I “must write” or because it’s “in my blood” or anything poetic like that. Or maybe those are just fancy ways of describing this certainty I have that all of my worth is wrapped up in my writing. From very young it seemed to me that writing was the only thing I did that was worthwhile. That had a chance of lasting. So, my work is something I have always given priority. The rest of my life can be falling apart, and it often seems to be, and I still take the time to work on the comic, or short stories. I am always moving forward with my writing. In a way I do treat everything else as a support system for the writing, but it isn’t really. And by treating it that way, I tend to neglect it.
Joey Comeau
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…
Jonathan Swift
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