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Elizabeth Hardwick
American
Critic
Born:
Jul 27
,
1916
Died:
Dec 2
,
2007
Before
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Reading
Wisdom
You
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Teacher
Adversity
Great
Worth
Pay
Profit
Price
Great Teacher
Instruction
Makes
Dearly
Often
Us
Paid
Derive
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Generation
Language
Power
Military
Lasting
City
Threatening
Brutality
Come
Most
Empty
Courtesy
Hand
Bureaucratic
Theatrical
Younger
Younger Generation
Euphemism
Assertion
Coherent
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