Adversity Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.” quote by Elizabeth Hardwick — Download Open image

“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.”

Elizabeth Hardwick

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“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn’t remember…

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“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them forever from the interests and follies of respectable young girls. It was Charlotte’s goal to represent the plight of plain, poor, high-minded young women. Sometimes she gave them more rectitude and right thinking than we can…

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I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully…

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“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she could not face; these gothic subterfuges represent the mind at a breaking point, frantic to find any way out. If the flaws are only to be attributed to the practicce of popular fiction of the time,…

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

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Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

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Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

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