Author: Elizabeth Hardwick

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

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