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Edward Hoagland Quotes
«In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.»
«True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.»
«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.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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Silence
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akin, exhilarating, exhilaration, noise, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, sweetness, velvet, velvets
«Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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all over, breathe, disaster, divorces, from scratch, injury, involve, irreparable, over again, relief, relish, relished, relishes, relishing, scratch, setup, shatter, shatters, start out
«There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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absorbing, adolescence, fugue, fugues, height, In the City, middle age, retrenchment, retrenchments, sullen, The City
«Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.»
«There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.»
«Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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ascribe, cleverness, distrust, In the City, leery, manifestations, righteousness, The City
«There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.»