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Daphne du Maurier Quotes

Daphne du Maurier quotes

English Novelist, Writer May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989

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Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, their news. Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book. And I had to call him Maxim. Daphne du Maurier
I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a..."
Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees? Daphne du Maurier
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite. Daphne du Maurier
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife..."
Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside? She is going to faint. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them...."
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Daphne du Maurier
you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind. Daphne du Maurier
And oh, heaven - the crowded playhouse, the stench of perfume upon heated bodies, the silly laughter and the clatter, the party in the Royal box - the King himself present - the impatient crowd in the cheap seats stamping and shouting for the play to begin while they threw orange peel on to the stage. Daphne du Maurier
A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight") Daphne du Maurier
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at..."
An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal. Daphne du Maurier
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you. I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen. Daphne du Maurier
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. Daphne du Maurier
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered and continued to suffer, becuse they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. Daphne du Maurier

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