"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or……" — Shirley Hazzard
"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."
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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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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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