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Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Shirley Hazzard quotes

Australian Novelist January 30, 1931

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Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right thing without knowing it, as some could. Shirley Hazzard
Yet her physical beauty was as strong a part of her character ... Its first and lasting impression was one of vitality and endurance. That is to say, of power: a power as self-contained, as unoppressive as that of a splendid tree. [p. 10] Shirley Hazzard
while Norah described to me her plans for carpets and curtains, or showed me the sample of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. When I began to know her, I wondered if their courtship had been, for her, something of the same -- my brother draped over a chair for the statutory length of time, to see if she could live with him. In that case she might have noticed that he did not really go with the surroundings; perhaps she did see this, but knew that... Shirley Hazzard
... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves 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. [p. 13] Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard quote: "I see that you are highly defensive." . . .Caro said, "I..."
I see that you are highly defensive." . . .Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude. 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
Shirley Hazzard quote: "I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal."
I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal. Shirley Hazzard
They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth. Shirley Hazzard
I was moved, too, to see her excited as a child--but no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to the beloved. 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: "It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state..."
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
Shirley Hazzard quote: "Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and..."
Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and the shrews are to be avoided. [p. 74] Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard quote: "Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by..."
Her eyes were enlarged and faded with discovering what, by common human agreement, is better undivulged. Shirley Hazzard
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
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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