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Elizabeth Hardwick has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so…
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Canadians, do not vomit on me!
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It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and…
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Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
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While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
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Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions…
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How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,…
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Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to…
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Memory - the very skin of life.
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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief…
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine…
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human…
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Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the…
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Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound…
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I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone…
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In a mad race to nowhere,how many of us stop and look around ? And even the one who do,how many do…
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