# Quote — Robert Silverberg, A Time of Changes

> It is peaceful here. I am far from the fishmongers and the drainers and the wine-peddlers and all those others whose songs of commerce clang in the streets of cities. A man can think; a man can look within his soul, and find those things that have been the shaping of him, and draw them forth, and examine them, and come to know himself.

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Book: [A Time of Changes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes.md)
- Page: 21
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#A_Time_of_Changes_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes/it-is-peaceful

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