#clamour

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#constantly #originality #quarrel #thing

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#buried #clamour #easily #god #quiet

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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