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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Letters
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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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Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. – Andre Gide

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Another way of judging the value of a prophets religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. – Muhammad Iqbal

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. – Mark Twain

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My father used to sing to me in my mothers womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. – Yancy Butler

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Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. – W.H. Auden

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Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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