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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. -- William Hamilton Maxwell
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. -- Paul Klee
People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past. -- Adrian McKinty
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. -- Alexander Smith
In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons. -- Clive Sinclair
One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors. -- Lily Koppel
The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket. -- Douglas Fairbanks
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage. -- Pablo Neruda
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn. -- Henry Ward Beecher
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! -- Michel de Montaigne
There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind. -- Auberon Waugh
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. -- Paul Klee

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