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He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.
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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Dame Daphne du Maurier
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I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
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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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…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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But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
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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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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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... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.
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Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.
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When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.
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A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
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Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
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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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A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
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Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
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Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.
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