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.

Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Experience Quotes, Gifts Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Morality Quotes, Passion Quotes, Reading Quotes

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction;...

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction;...

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked...

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked...

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

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,...

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

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

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion...

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion...