{"text":"The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?","author":"Larry Watson","tags":["quiet-men","repressed-emotions","silence","taciturn-men","undemonstrative-men"],"id":2842,"author_id":"Larry+Watson"}