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title: "1 Life Peaceful Quotes By Dawn Powell"
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> [Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/yet-better-for-one-of-my-nature-to-have-it-that-way-than-to-have-life/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

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## More by Dawn Powell

> [I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/i-realize-more-and-more-how-instinctively-pessimistic-i-am-of-all/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/for-a-genius-to-be-a-genius-he-must-have-a-selfless-slave-between/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/the-human-comedy-is-always-tragic-but-since-its-ingredients-are/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/i-want-so-much-for-my-lover-at-night-when-our-beds-are-drawn-close/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [“It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/it-was-not-a-jolly-place-at-all-for-a-sun-loving-soul/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/joe-and-jojo-and-i-had-lovely-day-together-i-love-joe-so-much-more/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/you-woke-in-the-morning-with-the-weight-of-doom-on-your-head-you-lay/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/satire-is-people-as-they-are-romanticism-people-as-they-would-like-to/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/rage-swept-over-her-at-being-young-young-and-little-as-if-some-evil/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/hold-fast-to-whatever-fragments-of-love-that-exist-for-sometimes-a/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/i-think-we-will-have-a-boy-baby-and-he-will-be-born-on-the-20th-of/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/there-is-really-one-city-for-everyone-just-as-there-is-one-major-love/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/yet-better-for-one-of-my-nature-to-have-it-that-way-than-to-have-life/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/i-cannot-exist-without-the-oxygen-of-laughter/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

> [A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dawn-powell/a-novel-is-like-a-gland-pill-it-nips-off-the-cream-of-my-hysterics/)

[Dawn Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dawn-powell/)

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