"Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise……" — Edward Hoagland
"Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep."
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38 Quotes by Edward Hoagland
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a…
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in…
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Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not…
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Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is…
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the…
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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has…
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so,…
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