Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Silence
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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Silences can be as different as sounds.
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The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.
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whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.
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