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Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Shirley Hazzard quotes

Australian Novelist January 30, 1931

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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. Shirley Hazzard
He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed the fact that nothing terrible had ever happened to him. Shirley Hazzard
Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself to overlook...', 'Tolerance is all very well up to a point...' -- as if they had tried the ways of magnanimity but found them too exigent. Shirley Hazzard
Even Grace still imagined there might be words, the words that could reach Dora and that had so far, unaccountably, not been hit upon. Only Caro recognized that Dora's condition was exactly that: a condition, an irrational state requiring professional, or divine, intervention. Shirley Hazzard
... I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion. Shirley Hazzard
Caro was coming round to the fact of unhappiness: to a realization that Dora created unhappiness and the she was bound to Dora. Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard quote: "Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned..."
Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it. Shirley Hazzard
. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7] Shirley Hazzard
I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere, knows the whole thing." [p. 38] Shirley Hazzard
It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87] Shirley Hazzard

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