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Edward Hoagland Quotes: Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
         

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.


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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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If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.



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