Truth

“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.” 

 ―Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), Polish-American poet, from his Nobel Lecture, 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: If there were more silence, would there be more truth?

 

 

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard