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Shirley Hazzard Quotes

There is balance in life, but not fairness Picture Quote #1

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life Picture Quote #1

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness Picture Quote #1

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right Picture Quote #1

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... one doesn’t really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake Picture Quote #1

For most people it’s easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged Picture Quote #1

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of Picture Quote #1

The tragedy is not that love doesn’t last. The tragedy is the love that lasts Picture Quote #1

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There is balance in life, but not fairness (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please (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 (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more (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 (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing (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 (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 (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 (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) ... one doesn’t really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake (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 (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void (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 (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) It’s a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of (Shirley Hazzard Quotes) The tragedy is not that love doesn’t last. The tragedy is the love that lasts (Shirley Hazzard Quotes)