"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another."

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Susanna Clarke

#Cat Quotes #Silence Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.”
“There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old manâ€™s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.”
“That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?”
“You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.”
“The only thing that ever really bothers me is that a lot of people think I'm that girl who hates your boyfriend. I'm really not that girl. Some of my friends' boyfriends are my best friends.”
“I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.”

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