Daphne du Maurier Quotes - Page 2

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• Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Sweet

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• Life and death do not wait for legal action.

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  Life And Death, Waiting, Action

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• Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Forever, Want

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• Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

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  Feel Better, Men, Tea

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Hungry Hill”, p.320, Hachette UK

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• People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

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  People, Enchantment, World

  Daphne du Maurier (1969). “My Cousin Rachel”

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• Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

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  Writing, Belief, Should

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• You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

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  Endure, Touched

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

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  Fear, Forever, Inferiority

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• Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

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  Laughter, Real, Laughing

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• Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

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  Night, Lasts, Last Night

  Rebecca ch. 1 (1938)

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• The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Problem

  DAPHNE DU MAURIER (1952). “MY COUSIN RACHEL”

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• Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.

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  Struggle, Fall, Thinking

  Daphne du Maurier (2000). “The Scapegoat”, p.200, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

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  Fall, Brave, Age

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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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  Angel, Cake, Special

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• here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

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  Determination, Wind, Two

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• I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

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  Done, Faults, Bears

  "The Scapegoat".

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• When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

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  World

  Daphne Du Maurier (1952). “Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short”

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• The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

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  Dark, Moon, Blood

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.323, Hachette UK

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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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  Fall, Shoes, Sound

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• We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

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  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.226, Hachette UK

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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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  Mind, Demand, Sat

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• All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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  Book, Self, Autobiography

  Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”

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• ...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.

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  Beach, Winter, Autumn

  James A. Michener, Alan C. Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Daphne du Maurier, Sixta, A.J. Cronin, Captain J. Y. Cousteau with Frederic Dumas (1953). “THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT”

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• Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

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  Men, Mary, Tales

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3: Jamaica Inn; The Flight of the Falcon; The King's General; The Glass Blowers; The Breaking Point & Other Stories; Mary Anne”, p.104, Hachette UK

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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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  Stars, Rocks, Air

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill”, p.243, Hachette UK

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