Top 31 Dawn Powell Quotes
#1. Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
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#2. How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.
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#3. I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.
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#4. A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
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#5. That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.
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#6. Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
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#7. There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.
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#8. All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
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#9. Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.
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#10. The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.
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#11. A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
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#12. The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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#13. Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
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#14. No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.
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#15. She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she'd be twenty-five years old.
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#16. Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring. You bodly threw down your challenges and then ran away in a childish panic when someone picked them up...
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#17. Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.
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#18. Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.
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#19. It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated.
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#20. A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
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#21. I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
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#22. The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
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#23. There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.
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#24. It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul
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#25. For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
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#26. That's why I can never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!
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#27. Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.
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#28. Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
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#29. A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
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#30. I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
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#31. I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness
since I am always so bowled over by it
and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
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