![]() As the Leader of Self Expressing Narcissists, I have had to wrestle with criticism and hard questions from people whom I respect and admire very much who don’t like or don’t see the need or point of things that I have written. Not to say that my voice ranks among those, and not to downplay the crisis of narcissistic self-expression we are currently submerged in, but silence isn’t always golden. Goose, whomever the hell she is, and that one dude that wrote the bible kept their proverbial mouth shut (intentional pun)? What if Martin Luther King never shared his dream? What if people like Hemingway and Sir James Barrie never taught us how to imagine in words? Apparently, there is a time and a place for speaking, and for being heard. ![]() What if Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain never said anything? What if Mrs. And there’s a very decent chance nobody gives a rats ass what I have to say.īut then I think about what happens if we’re all silent. I think I have gotten better over the years and repeated incidence of pissing people off, at keeping my mouth shut, but sometimes I still prattle on. I am the chiefest of sinners, as Someone Close To Me likes to point out, intent on expressing unsolicited opinions and offering mostly ill-advised counsel. Goose, Her Book that is a likely contender for the claim, but it has also been ascribed to Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and the book of Proverbs (in a slightly different format) (the latter two, I would contend, are synonymous #MarkTwainIsMyHero).įrom whichever lips or pens or or chisels it originally hailed, the words ring true over the centuries, and yet here we are, in a world were everybody and their dog seems hell bent on removing all doubt as to their idiocy. This quote has been attributed to many sources, including a 1907 volume called Mrs. “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” ![]()
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