Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
"Katherine Anne Porter" (p. 302)
American Fictions (1999)
“The presence of a thought is like the presence of a lover.”
Die Gegenwart eines Gedankens ist wie die Gegenwart einer Geliebten.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
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