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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier
Age: 81 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 13
Died: 1989
Died: April 19
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I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.
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Because I want to because I must because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.
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Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.
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She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.
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I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
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You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.
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People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment and all of it was mine.
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The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
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So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.
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If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the early morning.
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Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.
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But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
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Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market.
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Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
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…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.
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A bad workman blames his tools.
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I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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