It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. - Edward Hoagland
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
- Edward Hoagland
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. - Edward Hoagland
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife. - Edward Hoagland
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process. - Edward Hoagland
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and … - 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 …
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity. - Edward Hoagland
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.
A writer's work is to witness things. - Edward Hoagland
A writer's work is to witness things.
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller. - Edward Hoagland
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.
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 … - Edward Hoagland
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 …
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