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

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Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1952). “The house in Paris”

Elizabeth Bowen

#Silence Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Taxi Quotes

“Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.”
“Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.”
“Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”
“The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.”
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
“Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.”
“I was rescued from being a greaser by music.”
“A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.”

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