Enid Bagnold Quotes

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• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  Enid Bagnold

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Baby

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• Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

  Enid Bagnold

  Flower, Writing, Oddities

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• I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

  Enid Bagnold

  Horse, People, Velvet

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• Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

  Enid Bagnold

  Fall, Everyday

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• One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

  Enid Bagnold

  Truth, Lying, Interesting

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'

  Enid Bagnold

  Morning, Night, Bird

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• You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

  Enid Bagnold

  Age, One Day, Old Fashioned

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

  Enid Bagnold

  Death, People, Used

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• It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

  Enid Bagnold

  Love, Sex, Pain

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• I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

  Enid Bagnold

  Born

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• I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

  Enid Bagnold

  Astonishment, Aging

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

  Enid Bagnold

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

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• After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

  Enid Bagnold

  Marriage, Hands, Years

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• The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

  Enid Bagnold

  Hate, Dangerous, Reasonable

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• An only child is never twelve.

  Enid Bagnold

  Children, Twelve, Only Child

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• From birth to death we are alone.

  Enid Bagnold

  Birth

  Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”

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• Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

  Enid Bagnold

  Lunch, Dating, Lovers

  Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”

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• Things come suitable to the time.

  Enid Bagnold

  Timing, Suitable

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

  Enid Bagnold

  Men, Doctors, Years

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• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Art, Names, Theatre

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• Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

  Enid Bagnold

  Discovery, Pity, Terrible

  Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”

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• It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.

  Enid Bagnold

  Sex, Heart, Mean

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• Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

  Enid Bagnold

  Brother, Pain, Fear

  Enid Bagnold (1918). “A Diary Without Dates”

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• One's palate is reborn every morning!

  Enid Bagnold

  Morning, Eating, Palate

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

  Enid Bagnold

  Money, May, Dear God

  Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.280, Courier Corporation

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