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> [In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/in-a-family-the-same-spoken-lines-come-in-over-and-over-intimacy/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

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## More by Hortense Calisher

> [Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/every-art-is-a-church-without-communicants-presided-over-by-a-parish/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/but-memory-after-a-time-dispenses-its-own-emphasis-making-a/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/women-can-t-travel-light-we-re-in-charge-of-the-basic-facts/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Decades go faster toward the end of a century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/decades-go-faster-toward-the-end-of-a-century/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> ['Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/ms-is-a-syllable-which-sounds-like-a-bumble-bee-is-breaking-wind/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/diplomacy-is-what-is-practiced-after-the-fact-never-be-too-right-too/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Speech isn't for agony.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/speech-isn-t-for-agony/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/when-anything-gets-freed-a-zest-goes-round-the-world/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/balance-is-compromise-of-the-muscles/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/sociology-the-guilty-science-functions-best-by-alarm/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/the-young-show-the-genetic-process-the-old-merely-die-of-it/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [The novel is rescued life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/the-novel-is-rescued-life/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/it-has-always-seemed-to-me-that-if-you-could-talk-about-your-work-in/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/i-always-say-that-one-s-poetry-is-a-solace-to-oneself-and-a-nuisance/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

> [Agony without genius was gaucherie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hortense-calisher/agony-without-genius-was-gaucherie/)

[Hortense Calisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hortense-calisher/)

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