I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.
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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.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
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 . . .
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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.
Elizabeth Hardwick
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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