Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

Hermits

May

Sociability

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one’s own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

Character

Self

Wish

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Adversity

Pay

Teacher

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Art

Art Is

Shrines

Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.

Blue

Eye

Together

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Biology

Destiny

Girl

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Book

Giving

Reading

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.

Boston

Self

Spiritual

Canadians, do not vomit on me!

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.

Challenges

Determination

Race

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Believe

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Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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.

Canadians, do not vomit on me!

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.

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