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You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

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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London
England
Dame Daphne du Maurier
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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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Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
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Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time this is me, this moment will not pass.
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He lacked tenderness he was rude and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.
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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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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. (From Rebecca)
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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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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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And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
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Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
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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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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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A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
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I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.
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The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
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