Quotes with taciturn

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• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]

  Carol Ann Duffy
  British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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• Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

  Paul Klee
  Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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• The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

  Alexander Smith
  Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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• The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• middle-aged
• salt-washed
• promontory
• developed
• secrets

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