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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.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Afternoon Asked Belief Drifting Except Fifties Moment Nothing Place Power Satisfy Seem Sunny Taken You

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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.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Assertion Brutality Bureaucratic City Coherent Come Courtesy Empty Euphemism Generation Hand Language Lasting Military Most Power Theatrical Threatening Younger Younger Generation

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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.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Cheap Excites Experience Gift Gives Greatest Greatest Gift Illumination Kind Knowledge Moral Passion Reading Wide World You

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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.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Adversity Dearly Derive Great Great Teacher Instruction Makes Often Paid Pay Price Profit Teacher Us Worth

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I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Alone Am Here Longer New New York York I Am I Am Alone

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Before Books Give Makes More None Reading Some Where Wisdom

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Age Also Been Made Making Miserable Nature Pleased Ridiculous Should Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 27th, 1916

Died: December 2nd, 2007

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