Author: Elizabeth Hardwick

Quotes

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

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.

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.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

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