Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon

The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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teacher
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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… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Letters
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds — a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. – Albert Camus

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. – Ernest Hemingway

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time. – David Bailey

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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. – Eddie Vedder

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Wine is how classy people get wasted. – Author Unknown

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The education of the twentieth century will develop the heart as well as the intellect. – G. Stanley Hall (1846–1924)

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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