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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.
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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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Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.
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All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.
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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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No person will ever get into my blood as a place can... People and things pass away, but not places.
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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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The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.
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How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.
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There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
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We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.
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The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed.
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I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.
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Ideas for stories began to crowd thick and fast, like people waiting for a train.
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This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.
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A character or an idea has to grow like a seed and take possession…it's something to do with one's own development and passage through life.
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From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That — and none other.
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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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I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
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It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
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There's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.
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Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
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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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When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.
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I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.
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Born:
May 13, 1907
Died:
April 19, 1989
(aged 81)
Bio:
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning was an English author and playwright.
Known for:
Rebecca (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1936)
My Cousin Rachel (1951)
Frenchman's Creek (1941)
The House on the Strand (1969)
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