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Shirley Hazzard quotes: Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities; exchanging symptoms in undertones as boys might speak of lust.

At the other end of the room the three old men discussed infirmities; exchanging symptoms in undertones as boys might speak of lust.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged.

Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire

My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."
Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire

Shirley Hazzard quotes: It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]

Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]

Shirley Hazzard quotes: There is balance in life, but not fairness.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

Shirley Hazzard quotes: For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.

Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I was moved, too, to see her excited as a childbut no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to the beloved.

I was moved, too, to see her excited as a child
but no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to the beloved.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]

I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: In England, life is a long process of composing oneself ...

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself ...

Shirley Hazzard quotes: When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less.""Unless you love them.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: One doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

One doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I see that you are highly defensive." ... Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.

I see that you are highly defensive." ...
Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.

He worked in Interim Reports, before being upgraded to Annual Reports.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: One can only discover what has already come into existence.

One can only discover what has already come into existence.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: He had the complexion, lightly webbed, of outdoor living and indoor drinking, and was a high, handsome man who might have been cruel.

He had the complexion, lightly webbed, of outdoor living and indoor drinking, and was a high, handsome man who might have been cruel.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.

Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ...

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ...

Shirley Hazzard quotes: Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.