Hortense Calisher Quotes

• The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

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  Writing, Mind, Shapes

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• Agony without genius was gaucherie.

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  Agony, Suffering, Genius

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.261, Open Road Media

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• if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

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  Technology, Ears, Deaf

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

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  Helping Others, Zest, People

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.494, Open Road Media

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• perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

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  Prayer, Meditation, Spurs

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• 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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  Writing, Phrases, Stories

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• 'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

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  Wind, Sound, Bees

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• 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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  Uncles, Smart, Believe

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

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  Critics, Posterity

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• Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

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  Time, Century, Ends

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• 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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  Memories, Wreaths, Emphasis

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

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  Race, People, Lifetime

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

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  Science, Alarms, Guilty

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• The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

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  Process, Young, Shows

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

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  Dream, Standards

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

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  Clerks, Bureaucracy

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

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  Travel, Light, Facts

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• I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

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  Coffee, Men, Speak

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• I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

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  Poetry, Nuisance, Solace

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher”, p.629, Open Road Media

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• In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

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  Family, Lines, Intimacy

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “On Keeping Women: A Novel”, p.264, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Travel, Feet, Mankind

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• The novel is rescued life.

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  Novedad

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.434, Open Road Media

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• Speech isn't for agony.

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  Agony, Suffering, Speech

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

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  Success, Writing, Ideas

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Lo que he escrito -y cómo llegué a escribirlo- es lo que soy con más fuerza.

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  Writing, Most Powerful, Written

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