Hortense Calisher
Hortense Calisher
Hortense Calisherwas an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 December 1911
childhood hang happy instead neck
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
uncles smart believe
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.
technology ears deaf
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
time century ends
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
dream standards
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
wind bees sound
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
dream book reading
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
balance body compromise
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
clerks bureaucracy
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
prayer meditation spurs
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.