Rumer Godden Quotes - Page 2

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• For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

  Rumer Godden

  Book, Cat, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The stitch of a book is its words.

  Rumer Godden

  Book, Stitches

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

  Rumer Godden

  Firsts, Birth, First Time

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

  Rumer Godden

  Successful, Should Have, People

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• cleverness is a disease.

  Rumer Godden

  Disease, Cleverness

  Rumer Godden (1951). “A Breath of Air”

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

  Rumer Godden

  Love Is, People, Matter

  Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”

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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.

  Rumer Godden

  Thinking, Solitude, Going Away

  Rumer Godden (1961). “Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further”

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

  Rumer Godden

  Children, Different, Wonder

  Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”

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• in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

  Rumer Godden

  Beach, Thinking, California

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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

  Rumer Godden

  Simple, Garden, Joy

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