Elizabeth Hardwick Short Quotes

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When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

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She was alone in the way that one can only be when pain is involved.

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The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

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Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

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Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

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The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

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In general I'd rather talk about other people. Gossip, or as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

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I don't have many plots and perhaps as a justification I sometimes think: If I want a plot I'll watch Dallas.

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Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

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As we know from the Old Testament it is very easy to sink into idolatry, which a good deal of the flag-waving is just now.

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Of course these things are not mine. I think they are usually spoken of as ours, that tea bag of a word which steeps in the conditional.

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I like many homosexuals and many self-absorbed, childless women, and I can't see them as a menace to the republic, or even to Republicans.

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In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.

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As for evangelizing Christians, their vulgarization of the Scriptures surpasses belief, their incredible assumption of Jesus as a pal in the cheering stand.

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The fifties – they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

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Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

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Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

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She never liked the constant presence of her husbands or lovers and did not like, she soon found out, to be alone — a dilemma in one shape or another common to most of mankind.

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The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

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This photographer felt deeply the stab of professional insult common to people who have lived in a foreign country for a few years and still find their opinions not asked for at home.

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They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

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Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

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I hardly ever go into a bookstore because, instead of buying, I would like to give away about five thousand of my seven thousand books, which are weighing on me like some suffocating plague.

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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

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We would not want to think of the essay as the country of old men, but it is doubtful that the slithery form, wearisomely vague and as chancy as trying to catch a fish in the open hand, can be taught.

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