"I wondered why it was that places are……" — Daphne du Maurier
"I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone."
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Daphne du Maurier
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89 Quotes by Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier has 89 quotes on this site.
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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves,…
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my…
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at…
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People who travel are always fugitives.
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Life and death do not wait for legal action.
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Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to…
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean…
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More Alone Quotes
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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