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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes about Silence

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Silences can be as different as sounds.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Elizabeth Bowen
Silence, Sound, Different
Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen
Silence, Speak, Climax
ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

Elizabeth Bowen
Country, Nature, Silence
"The Death Of The Heart".

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Elizabeth Bowen
Silence, Stranger, Taxi
Elizabeth Bowen (1952). “The house in Paris”

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.

Elizabeth Bowen
Pain, Silence, Doubt
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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