"When you learn to read you will be……" — Rumer Godden
"When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again."
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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden has 16 quotes on this site.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests…
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Memory is the only friend of grief.
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A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries,…
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If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
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The stitch of a book is its words.
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For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like…
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There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
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It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen;…
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I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn…
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I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into…
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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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