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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 that caused me to weep like a child.” quote by Elizabeth Hardwick — Download Open image

“Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.”

Elizabeth Hardwick

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