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Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Shirley Hazzard quotes

Australian Novelist January 30, 1931

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But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband greatly loved her. Shirley Hazzard
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? Shirley Hazzard
Sometimes,, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However, it required merely some slight attention on his part to restore all her apprehensions - for these extremes of feeling only... Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard quote: "When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts..."
When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."Unless you love them. Shirley Hazzard
But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56] Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard quote: "My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a..."
My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
Paul said, 'You always had some contempt for me.''Yes.''And love too.''Yes.' A flicker over her stare was the facial equivalent of a shrug. 'Now you have a wife to give you both. Shirley Hazzard
Did you love Paul Ivory?"Yes."I suppose it ended badly."Yes."You must have been very unhappy."I died, and Adam resurrected me. Shirley Hazzard
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
Shirley Hazzard quote: "The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the..."
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. Shirley Hazzard
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... Shirley Hazzard
She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life. Shirley Hazzard
They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come to know. Shirley Hazzard
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
We take our bearings from the wrong landmark, wish that when young we had studied the stars - name the flowers for ourselves and the deserts after others. When the territory is charted, its eventual aspect may be quite other than what was hoped for. One can only say, it will be a whole - a region from which a few features, not necessarily those that seemed prominent at the start, will stand out in clear colours. Not to direct, but to solace us; not to fix our positions, but to show us how... Shirley Hazzard

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