She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I . . .Elizabeth Hardwick
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
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 paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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