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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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A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
Daphne du Maurier
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment and all of it was mine.
Daphne du Maurier
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?
Daphne du Maurier
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
Daphne du Maurier
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier
When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.
Daphne du Maurier
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
Daphne du Maurier
…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.
Daphne du Maurier
I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
Daphne du Maurier
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
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People who travel are always fugitives.
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Because I want to because I must because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.
Daphne du Maurier
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.
Daphne du Maurier
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Daphne du Maurier
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.
Daphne du Maurier
From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, That -- and none other.
Daphne du Maurier
The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
Daphne du Maurier
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.
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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.
Daphne du Maurier
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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