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Ruth Sidransky
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“In the end, words, volumes of words, all signed, were the eloquent metaphor of my life. It was the language born of hands that was my beginning.”
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“Summertime is the time of sharpest memory.”
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“School was absurd, a collection of memorized facts, a denial of questions.”
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“... silence inappropriately sought had human disconnection as its end, but lovingly sought it could bring comfort and peace.”
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“Speech was present. Everywhere. Stones could speak. Rivers spoke. Sand had words. The ocean lapped the shore and told its secrets. Speech was in everything.”
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“I do prefer 'stone deaf'; stones may be mute, but they are warm in the sun, they feel soothing in the palm. It is a piece of the earth, attached to God. I do not know what the pedants mean when they write 'profoundly deaf' to describe the person who has never heard a sound. Deaf is deaf and silence is forever.”
Ruth Sidransky, U.S. writer
(1929)