Elizabeth Hardwick - Boston Quotes

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Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache.... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Boston — wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming — has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.

Elizabeth Hardwick