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Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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

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



The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.



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Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.



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Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.



When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

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