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> [ “I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." \[p. 38\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/i-said-some-people-do-know-more-than-others-that-contributes-to-the/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

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## More by Shirley Hazzard

> [It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/it-s-nervous-work-the-state-you-need-to-write-in-is-the-state-that/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/i-wasn-t-convinced-a-shop-girl-would-know-the-word-oedipal/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/great-literature-is-like-moral-leadership-everyone-deplores-the-lack/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/when-people-say-of-their-tragedies-i-don-t-often-think-of-it-now-what/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/but-that-s-a-way-to-go-on-loving-a-place-or-a-person-to-miss-it-in/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/i-see-that-you-are-highly-defensive-caro-said-i-withhold-my-analysis/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/although-the-sufferings-of-children-are-the-worst-being/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [ “I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." \[p. 38\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/i-said-some-people-do-know-more-than-others-that-contributes-to-the/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/dark-had-meant-dora-had-meant-words-and-events-sordid-with-self/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/marriage-is-like-democracy-it-doesn-t-really-work-but-it-s-all-we-ve/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/sometimes-as-now-her-heart-twisted-and-broke-under-his-determination/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/chief-coordinator-of-dalto-the-department-of-aid-to-the-less/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/occasion-revived-an-illusion-of-discovery-as-if-one-woke-in-a-strange/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/when-you-realize-someone-is-trying-to-hurt-you-it-hurts-less-unless/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

> [Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-hazzard/since-the-moment-of-the-united-nations-inception-untold-energies-have/)

[Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-hazzard/)

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