Dorothy Gilman - People Quotes

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People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

He was really quite a selfish person — I think most unhappy people are, don't you?

Dorothy Gilman

People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

She felt that most of the obstacles in her life had been placed there by logical people.

Dorothy Gilman

The richness of living caught at her throat, and all the well-meant security with which people surrounded themselves was exposed for what it truly was: a wall to keep out life, a conceit, a mad delusion.

Dorothy Gilman