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Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Shirley Hazzard quotes about greatness

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
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
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
But tears are not, like blood, shed by all involuntarily and according to the same determinants. And I had come to wonder, from the cauterized state of my own emotions then, whether those who have suppressed or diverted the course of strong feeling are sometimes left immune, with nothing more than just such superficial traces of what was once a great affliction. [p. 78] Shirley Hazzard
Caro sat without speaking, turning toward him her look that was neither sullen nor expectant but soberly attentive; and, once, a glance in which tenderness and apprehension were great and indivisible, giving unbearable, excessive immediacy to the living of these moments. Paul had seen that look before, when they first lay down together at the inn beyond Avebury Circle. Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard quote: "Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out..."
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. Shirley Hazzard

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