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Brief about Elizabeth Hardwick: By info that we know Elizabeth Hardwick was born at 1916-07-27. And also Elizabeth Hardwick is American Critic.

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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.

Tags: Experience, Greatest, Knowledge

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Tags: Adversity, Great, Teacher

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Tags: Give, Makes, Wisdom

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Tags: Alone, Here, Longer

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Tags: Age, Making, Nature

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.

Tags: Moment, Place, Power

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Tags: Language, Military, Power
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