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What cannot be spoken about is turned into silent images.
"If I join existing groups with straight people, there might be things that are awkward for us to discuss or cannot be spoken about directly and I have to lie about my sexual preference.
Unfortunately, the sport of weightlifting cannot be spoken about without mentioning the drug abuse that has so often tainted it.
Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has been regarded as a logical positivist by some academics because he distinguished between things that can and cannot be spoken about; others have argued that he could not have been a logical positivist because he emphasised the importance of mysticism.
There are forbidden behaviours in the psychoanalyst's office, but no subjects that cannot be spoken about.
As she told a writers' festival, "there are stories I know about people from my homeland that cannot be spoken about outside of closed doors...Our people die young, too frequently, and many die badly". Carpentaria" has caused a stir in Australia, though most reviewers have dwelt on its bawdy humour rather than on the harrowing revelations of the aboriginals' circumstances.
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Many words cannot be written, many things cannot be spoken".
Things are being spoken about as we speak.
It has not been spoken about enough.
She's spoken about having bipolar disorder.
Already Helen was speaking about eternity.
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