When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. — Elizabeth Hardwick Discovery Copy Share Image
“All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper. — Elizabeth Hardwick Hermit Copy Share Image
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. — Elizabeth Hardwick Baggage Copy Share Image
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing. — Elizabeth Hardwick Day and night Copy Share Image
While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery. — Elizabeth Hardwick Cemetery Copy Share Image
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words. — Elizabeth Hardwick Differences Copy Share Image
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Adults Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Gift Copy Share Image
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Cinema Copy Share Image
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is… — Elizabeth Hardwick Adversity Copy Share Image
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They… — Elizabeth Hardwick Baby Copy Share Image
The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Challenges Copy Share Image
“The social world of Ibsen’s plays is greatly restricted, enclosed in a narrow frame, cut off by the very geography of Norway;… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and… — Elizabeth Hardwick Blue Copy Share Image
“The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so… — Elizabeth Hardwick Communication Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel… — Elizabeth Hardwick Art Copy Share Image
“I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about… — Elizabeth Hardwick Books Copy Share Image
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Body Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not… — Elizabeth Hardwick Patience Copy Share Image
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were… — Elizabeth Hardwick F-scott-fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Breaking point Copy Share Image
“In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth… — Elizabeth Hardwick Fifth avenue Copy Share Image
“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty… — Elizabeth Hardwick Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
![“[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.” quote by Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/95f/elizabeth-hardwick-10519_hermit_on-sociability-in-italy-you-may-be-a-her_2239635.png)
