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Shirley Hazzard

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Chronological prestige is tenacious: once attained, it can't be shed; it increased moment by moment, day by day, pressing its honours on you until you are lavishly, overly endowed with them. Until you literally sink under them.
Shirley Hazzard
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Shirley Hazzard
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Shirley Hazzard
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
Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.
Shirley Hazzard

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