Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. - Elizabeth Hardwick
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.
- Elizabeth Hardwick
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre - Elizabeth Hardwick
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre
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 pai… - Elizabeth Hardwick
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 pai…
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. - Elizabeth Hardwick
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. - Elizabeth Hardwick
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing. - Elizabeth Hardwick
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable … - Elizabeth Hardwick
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable …
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. - Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Memory - the very skin of life. - Elizabeth Hardwick
Memory - the very skin of life.
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