Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!
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When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
