Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consol

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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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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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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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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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. – Ron Wyden

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The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, its impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you cant just go, Hey, theres a great movie – were not going to show you anything from it but trust us! – Paul Feig

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A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience. – Curt Siodmak

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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. – Susan Sontag

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