Elizabeth Hardwick quote: "The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she could not face; these gothic subterfuges represent the mind at a breaking point, frantic to find any way out. If the flaws are only to be attributed to the practicce of popular fiction of the time, we cannot then explain the large amount of genuine feeling that goes into them. They stand for the hidden wishes of an intolerable life."

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expec...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference—with words...
- ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, i...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

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

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

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

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an ...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communi...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

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 th...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, espec...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans i...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself with...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen ha...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessn...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Canadians, do not vomit on me!
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been...
OMARI HARDWICK

On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
OMARI HARDWICK

Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
OMARI HARDWICK

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be r...
OMARI HARDWICK

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at...
OMARI HARDWICK

Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extreme...
OMARI HARDWICK

I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good acto...
OMARI HARDWICK

Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & F...
OMARI HARDWICK

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
OMARI HARDWICK

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a...
OMARI HARDWICK

The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before i...
OMARI HARDWICK

I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
OMARI HARDWICK

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our w...
OMARI HARDWICK

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
OMARI HARDWICK

It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They...
OMARI HARDWICK

I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
OMARI HARDWICK

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me pl...
OMARI HARDWICK

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think...
OMARI HARDWICK

I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
OMARI HARDWICK

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most s...
CHRIS HARDWICK

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn...
DESTINEE HARDWICK

We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And...
OMARI HARDWICK

Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
OMARI HARDWICK

Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered g...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review o...
OMARI HARDWICK

Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
OMARI HARDWICK

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I ...
OMARI HARDWICK

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching thi...
OMARI HARDWICK

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer bec...
OMARI HARDWICK

I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as muc...
OMARI HARDWICK

People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there need...
OMARI HARDWICK

I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall o...
OMARI HARDWICK

I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who ...
OMARI HARDWICK

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people ar...
CHRIS HARDWICK

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Mos...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a ...
OMARI HARDWICK

I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washingto...
OMARI HARDWICK

Fisher was a Republican of convenience. If it were up to most Republicans, everybody in the County E...
KEVIN HARDWICK

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativit...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to a...
OMARI HARDWICK

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
CHRIS HARDWICK

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
CHRIS HARDWICK

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 4...
CHRIS HARDWICK

It was very distressing to see how completely relaxed and normal Jean Charles appeared, particularly...
NICK HARDWICK

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in un...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.
CHRIS HARDWICK

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn'...
CHRIS HARDWICK

The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.
DESTINEE HARDWICK

Well, you know he was just being nice. That was the only steak I had that year.
CHRIS HARDWICK

I got more recognized for that commercial (Miller Makes It Right!) than any tournament I won, ... Th...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
CHRIS HARDWICK

I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one...
CHRIS HARDWICK

He's definitely into it more. He's just more excited. When you are more comfortable playing a positi...
NICK HARDWICK

To this day, there is nothing about Rebecca I don't like,
CHRIS HARDWICK

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated,...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, beca...
OMARI HARDWICK

I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy ve...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us...
OMARI HARDWICK

My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA H...
CHRIS HARDWICK

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lu...
OMARI HARDWICK

I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very larg...
OMARI HARDWICK

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough,...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can thin...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I ...
OMARI HARDWICK

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'...
OMARI HARDWICK

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
CHRIS HARDWICK

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the bett...
CHRIS HARDWICK

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL

We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN

I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY

Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG

Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK

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