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Shirley Hazzard has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it…
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which…
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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the…
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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
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I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended…
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Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly…
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The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity…
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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be…
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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to…
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I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but…
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I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after…
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My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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When I got married of course I wanted everything to be perfect. Youre nervous because you want it to be perfect. And…
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