Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Experience, Knowledge, Greatest

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

Great, Teacher, Adversity

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Wisdom, Give, Before

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Alone, Here, Longer

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Age, Nature, Made

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

Power, Nothing, Moment

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

Power, Language, Military

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 27, 1916

Died: December 2, 2007

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