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

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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...

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...

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

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

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;...

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,...

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...

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.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because...

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because...

When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into...

When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into...

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to...

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to...

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only...

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only...

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They...

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw...

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about...

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about...

Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain,...

Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain,...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...