"Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead."

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Source : Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press

Shirley Hazzard

#Leadership Quotes #Literature Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.”
“This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.”
“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.”
“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”
“I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.”
“Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.”

Source : "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, 1926.
“If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.”
“In my very own self, I am part of my family.”

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