Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world. - Hortense Calisher
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
- Hortense Calisher
'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.
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.
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.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century. - Hortense Calisher
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm. - Hortense Calisher
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to. - Hortense Calisher
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
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…
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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