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Daphne du Maurier
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“... there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.”
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“There could never be a more beautiful city than this. It was cold, austere, belonging only to the water. ... Stockholm was a northern city, her beauty stark and frozen even in midsummer, the blue water like the pure caverns of a glacier ...”
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“It doesn't do to be curious at Jamaica Inn, and I'll have you remember that.”
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“I wish I could save this moment like scent in a bottle.”
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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
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“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
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“I'm glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love.”
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“People who travel are always fugitives.”
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“Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.”
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“A bad workman blames his tools.”
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“There are more birds about than usual.”
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“The urge to climb will never be explained. In olden days, perhaps it was a wish to reach the stars. Today, anyone so minded can buy a seat on a plane and feel himself master of the skies. Even so, he will not have rock under his feet, or air upon his face; nor will he know the silence that comes only on the hills.”
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“Life and death do not wait for legal action.”
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“The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.”
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“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”
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“... no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.”
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“Ideas for stories began to crowd thick and fast, like people waiting for a train.”
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“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”
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“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
Daphne du Maurier, English writer, playwright
(1907 - 1989)
Full name: Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE.