"I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know…" — Shirley Hazzard
"I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal."
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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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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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At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time…
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal…
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom…
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
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I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
— Michele Bachmann
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
— Abigail Adams
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I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it…
— Toni Cade Bambara
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It…
— Albert Barnes
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The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
— Scipio Africanus
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