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Letter "E" » Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes
«Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.»
«The greatest gift is a 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.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| About:
Experience,
Gifts,
Knowledge,
Morality,
Passion,
Reading
| Keywords:
cheap, consoled, consoles, consoling, distracting, distracts, excites, illumination, illuminations, wide
«Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.»
«I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| About:
New York
«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.»
«Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| Keywords:
functions, nomad, nomads, nothingness, rooming, rooming house
«Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...»
«The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| Keywords:
at hand, bureaucratic, coherent, euphemism, euphemisms, military power, repudiation
«Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent ''I',' the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| Keywords:
an episode, bursting, burst forth, episode, episodes, episodic, germ, ironically, The Germ, tone of voice
«Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| About:
Nature
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