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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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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no…
— Thomas Carlyle
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You will be most effective when members can complement each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.
— Peter R. Scholtes
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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…
— Shirley Hazzard
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Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.
— Susan Piver
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses…
— Helen Keller
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
— Paul Tillich
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have…
— Maya Angelou
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In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the…
— Helen Keller
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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without…
— Mary Oliver
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