Hortense Calisher Quotes - Page 2

• Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

  Hortense Calisher

  Art, Fighting, Church

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.343, Open Road Media

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• Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

  Hortense Calisher

  Balance, Body, Compromise

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• First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

  Hortense Calisher

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Hortense Calisher (1974). “Herself”

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• What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

  Hortense Calisher

  Writing, Most Powerful, Written

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