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The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
— Hortense Calisher
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
— Hortense Calisher
Agony without genius was gaucherie.
— Hortense Calisher
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
— Hortense Calisher
Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
— Hortense Calisher
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
— Hortense Calisher
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
— Hortense Calisher
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
— Hortense Calisher
As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket.
— Robert Kirkman
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
— Hortense Calisher
anymore. Maybe he was even with someone else after all this time. "You really look worried," Pete said. "Relax. Something came up that he
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
It's not about judging you, it's about changing your point of view.
— Simone Milasas
Speech isn't for agony.
— Hortense Calisher
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
— Hortense Calisher
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
— Hortense Calisher
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
— Hortense Calisher
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
— Hortense Calisher
From the ashes, they rose, And burned once again. He never forgot her glow, And she never forgot him.
— Brittainy C. Cherry
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
— Hortense Calisher
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
— Hortense Calisher
Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
— Hortense Calisher
The novel is rescued life.
— Hortense Calisher
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
— Hortense Calisher
What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
— Mark Batterson
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
— Hortense Calisher
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
— Hortense Calisher
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
— Hortense Calisher
Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
— Tom Golisano
If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
— Hortense Calisher
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
— Hortense Calisher
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
— Hortense Calisher