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Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference - with words.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Memory - the very skin of life.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Art is a profession, not a shrine.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Canadians, do not vomit on me!
— Elizabeth Hardwick
There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel - and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
The great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre
— Elizabeth Hardwick
A Doll's House is about money, about the way it turns locks.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.
— Flannery O'Connor
Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
You have grown a little beard, I said.You see it is not true that one can't change. — Elizabeth Hardwick
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
-and he flew in to her from the clutter of Somerville, the compost heap behind the Harvard Yard.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Biology is destiny only for girls.
— Elizabeth Hardwick