38 Quotes by Hortense Calisher

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

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.

Women can’t travel light. We’re in charge of the basic facts.

A happy childhood can’t be cured. Mine’ll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that’s all, instead of a noose.

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

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.

Speech isn’t for agony.

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

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind’s that didn’t.