Rumer Godden Quotes

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For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

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It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

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To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

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I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

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His demon is litigation and all his money goes in that.

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It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

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Her arguments are like elephants. They squash you flat.

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You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

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Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

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If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love...

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The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

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Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

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In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

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Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful...

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