“I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.”
Letter to Thomas Carlyle (30 October 1841)
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Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
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“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice

THIS CULTURAL LIFE: SIENNA GUILLORY Article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040523/ai_n12754898. The Independent on Sunday. May 23, 2004.

oistrakh.ru Biography of David Oistrakh http://www.oistrakh.ru/en/david_oistrakh/biography/.

The Bridges, as quoted in The Old Bridge of Mostar and Increasing Respect for Cultural Property in Armed Conflict (2012) by Jadranka Petrovic, p. 65

“Against the outcrop boulders of a raised beach
We built our house when I and my love were young.”
"The Last Conservative"

Preface to Lehrreicher Geschicht-Herold
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