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Daphne du Maurier Quotes

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

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here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate. Daphne du Maurier
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be..."
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. Daphne du Maurier
Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market. Daphne du Maurier

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