I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
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.
There is balance in life, but not fairness. - Shirley Hazzard
There is balance in life, but not fairness.
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…
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 …
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