"At first, there is something you expect of……" — Shirley Hazzard
"At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing."
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Shirley Hazzard
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16 Quotes by Shirley Hazzard
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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and…
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life,…
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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
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