"Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence."

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Source : Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

Robertson Davies

#Silence Quotes #Tongue Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.”
“I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.”
“Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.”

Source : Bret Harte (1871). “That heathen Chinee, and other poems mostly humorous”, p.113
“Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?”
“Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.”
“I couldnâ€™t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.”
“Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.”
“Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 01, 2005.

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