Quotes by Shirley Hazzard - Page 1

There is balance in life, but not fairness.
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Balance
Fairness
Life Balance
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Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
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Has Beens
Pleasure
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What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
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Fear
Happens
Law
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In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.
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England
Life Is
Long
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Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.
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Lying
Please
Wish
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I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.
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Girl
Knows
Shops
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Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
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Humans
Needs
Unhappiness
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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
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Confusion
Lasts
Tragedy
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Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.
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Giving
Guarantees
Might
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Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.
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Beauty
Physical Beauty
True Nature
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When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.
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Hurt
Realizing
Trying
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... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.
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Mistake
Next
Profit
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Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.
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Marriage
Able
Democracy
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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
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America
Civilization
Phenomenon
Secret
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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.
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Bags
Plot
Superstitions
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I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.
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Pages
Thinking
Writing
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For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
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Obscure
People
Support
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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.
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Needs
Nervous
Writing
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It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.
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Belief
Religious
Void
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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
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Imagination
Accurate
Facts
Sometimes
Truth Is
Closer
Surely
To Love
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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.
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Leadership
Literature
Moral
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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.
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Advantage
Authority
Over You
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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.
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Loss
Night
Tragedy
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In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.
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Imagination
Bye
Spite
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When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.
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Color
Mean
Thinking
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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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Inspirational
Children
Real
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A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.
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Long
Novelists
Writing
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That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.
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Loyalty
Matter
Never Quit
People
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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.
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Expectations
Firsts
Too Late
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Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
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Commitment
Forgiving
Numbers
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Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.
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Foyers
Hotel Lobby
Waiting
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The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.
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Government
Church
Risk
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Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.
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Men
Character
Organization
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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
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Love
True Love
Thinking
Wish
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books.
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Wisdom
Book
Europe
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.
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Art
Teacher
Book
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