Top 29 Hortense Calisher Quotes
#5. If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
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#6. What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
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#7. Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
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#8. This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
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#10. A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
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#13. I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
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#14. 'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
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#17. But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
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#18. In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
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#20. But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.
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#21. I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
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#23. First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
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#24. Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
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#25. It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
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#27. Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
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#28. The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
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