Hortense Calisher Famous Quotes
Reading Hortense Calisher quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Hortense Calisher. Righ click to see or save pictures of Hortense Calisher quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
