Keith Douglas Quotes

• Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.

  Keith Douglas

  Happiness, Hate, Cat

  Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.

  Keith Douglas

  Life Is Like, Life Is, Elevators

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