Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. Elizabeth Hardwick More Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick More Quotes From Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. Elizabeth Hardwick military cities hands Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. Elizabeth Hardwick glasses silence art The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines. Elizabeth Hardwick vaccines drug drama The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing. Elizabeth Hardwick future night enemy History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind. Elizabeth Hardwick long book history Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis. Elizabeth Hardwick gossip analysis character 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 events light children Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth. Elizabeth Hardwick youth cities people While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery. Elizabeth Hardwick cemetery [On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper. Elizabeth Hardwick sociability hermits may Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope. Elizabeth Hardwick communication powerful believe The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. Elizabeth Hardwick sunny-afternoon taken belief Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality. Elizabeth Hardwick determination race challenges Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. Elizabeth Hardwick new-york mother baby I am alone here in New York, no longer a we. Elizabeth Hardwick new-york Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy. Elizabeth Hardwick hatred self love-is Canadians, do not vomit on me! Elizabeth Hardwick Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade. Elizabeth Hardwick boston self spiritual Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. Elizabeth Hardwick landscape sex fiction Biology is destiny only for girls. Elizabeth Hardwick biology destiny girl
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