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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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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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Twentieth Century
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Welfare
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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and theres something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly its not something that youre in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. – Carrie Fisher

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You dont cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. – Andre Agassi

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Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before. – Catherine Deneuve

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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