Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 27, 1916 - December 2, 2007

Topics

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Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

Jessa Gamble

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I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

John Oliver

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I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

Michael Haneke

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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.

Julia Leigh

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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Clifton Fadiman

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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe

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We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

Susan Glaspell

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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

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If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

Ryan Stiles

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Being a perfectionist is really difficult. You're never really happy with what you're doing, no matter how good it is. When you can just release that pressure and be in someone else's work and still have the respect of those creators to bounce off the page and give your ideas that they can take or leave? I really enjoy that.

Rhys Darby

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I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

Leonard Lauder

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