Shirley Hazzard Quote

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.


We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays (ed. Columbia University Press, 2016) - ISBN: 9780231540797


Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.