Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwickwas an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 July 1916
CountryUnited States of America
children light upheaval
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.
novel
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
morning book phones
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.
Canadians, do not vomit on me!
communication mean self
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
memories lost-love lost-youth
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.
differences making-a-difference difficulty
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
military hands cities
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
love-is self hatred
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
movie real mind
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.
weight baggage footnotes
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
future night enemy
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.
determination race challenges
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.
marriage running men
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.