38 Quotes by Hortense Calisher

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.