Top 43 Enid Bagnold Quotes
#2. One never knows when one is old for certain.
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#3. Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'
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#4. If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
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#5. I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.
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#6. Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
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#7. She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind, women walking on a temple frieze, Greek women in fluttering robes rounding a vase's girth for ever.
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#8. Sex
the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
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#9. But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.
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#10. I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.
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#11. Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
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#12. In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.
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#13. A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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#14. She'd ride like a piece of lightning. No more weight'n a piece of lightning.
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#15. You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
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#16. When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
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#17. It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.
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#18. There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.
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#19. The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
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#20. The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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#21. As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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#22. The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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#23. Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
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#25. Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.
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#26. In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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#27. Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
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#28. He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents...
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#29. I don't like people," said Velvet. " ... I only like horses.
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#30. Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
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#31. Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand.
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#32. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.
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#33. I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.
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#34. Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.
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#35. If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.
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#36. If death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.
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#37. The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
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#38. After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
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#39. And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.
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#41. One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
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