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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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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Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
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I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
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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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The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
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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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Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
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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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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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When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.
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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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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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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master.
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Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
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If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.
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People who travel are always fugitives.
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She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.
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It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
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[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.
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