When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. - Shirley Hazzard
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.
- Shirley Hazzard
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. - Shirley Hazzard
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same.… - Shirley Hazzard
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same.…
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life. - Shirley Hazzard
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal. - Shirley Hazzard
I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. - Shirley Hazzard
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost … - Shirley Hazzard
Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost …
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real… - Shirley Hazzard
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real…
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. - Shirley Hazzard
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
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