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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Shirley Hazzard

Australian Novelist Love

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well /but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself? - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well /but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Shirley Hazzard

Love

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of. - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.

Shirley Hazzard

Work

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard

America Australian Novelist

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

Australian Novelist Imagination

Do you ever notice, asked Luisa,

Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, "how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?"

Shirley Hazzard

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself? - Shirley Hazzard Quotes

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Shirley Hazzard

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