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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've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
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Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.
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So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed,…
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Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle…
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish
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At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?
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