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

— Hortense Calisher

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More quotes by Hortense Calisher

At their best they’re our moral health—and our hope.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

I grew up, you know, in a generation of war novels and macho—Hemingway’s being the most prominent.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

Motherhood has no firm curriculum, but it can make you mechanically minded, and it can connect you firmly to physical life.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

I am more interested in wars of the mind.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

As for complication—or complexity—it excites me.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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