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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
All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.
— Hortense Powdermaker
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
Adventure, without it, why live?
— Hortense Odlum
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
— Hortense Calisher
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
— Hortense Calisher
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
— Hortense Odlum
Speech isn't for agony.
— Hortense Calisher
South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.
— Hortense Powdermaker
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.
— Hortense Powdermaker
Hortense. We broke
— Heather Webb
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
— 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
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
— Hortense Calisher
No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
— Hortense Odlum
It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
— Hortense Odlum
If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.
— Hortense Canady
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
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
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