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

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Elizabeth Hardwick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1916
Born: July 27
Died: 2007
Died: December 2
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Lexington
Kentucky
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Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.
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Memory - the very skin of life.
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The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
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Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.
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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.
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Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.
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The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
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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.
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Art is a profession, not a shrine.
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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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.
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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.
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While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
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Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
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I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.
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Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
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Biology is destiny only for girls.
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The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
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Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
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How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life every life is rich in material.
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