Dawn Powell Quotes

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• I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on…
• 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…
• The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole,…
• A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
• A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
• There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.
• A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book…
• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there,…
• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love,…
• I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and…
• Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
• Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be…
• Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
• The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through…
• All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
• There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph…
• I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
• Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

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