Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer

Lived from: 1916 - 2007

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

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  • Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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  • Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
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  • Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
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  • 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.
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  • The greatest gift is the 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.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Elizabeth Hardwick?

The two most famous quotes from Elizabeth Hardwick are:

  • "Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
  • "Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires..."

When did Elizabeth Hardwick live?

Elizabeth Hardwick was born in 1916 and died in the year 2007.