Nothing…makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.
Shirley Hazzard Quotes
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well –but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
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Shirley Hazzard (5)
Birth: | 30th January, 1931 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Author, Novelist, Writer |
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