Rumer Godden Quotes
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For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
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People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
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Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
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The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.
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if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
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I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
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To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
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If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.
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As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.
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Wanting is the beginning of getting.
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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 bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.
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I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.
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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 Sanna
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cleverness is a disease.
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Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
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Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
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With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.
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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 a cat whose kittens have grown up.
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It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.
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When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
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You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
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in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
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In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
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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, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.
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Memory is the only friend of grief.
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If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.
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Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.
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