76 Quotes by Edward Hoagland

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it’s not alright; they think he’s crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy...

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn’t talk at all.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga – stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

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 years.