It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world. - Hortense Calisher
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
- Hortense Calisher
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to. - Hortense Calisher
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts. - Hortense Calisher
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm. - Hortense Calisher
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. - Hortense Calisher
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. - Hortense Calisher
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never… - Hortense Calisher
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never…
Decades go faster toward the end of a century. - Hortense Calisher
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race. - Hortense Calisher
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
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