Top 59 Godden Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

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#3. For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

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#4. Is it easier to be than to do?

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#5. The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

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#6. You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

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#7. You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

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#8. 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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#9. But someone once told me, you cannot climb a well from the middle, you must fall right to the bottom. Once you are there, in the cold, alone and ankle deep in slime, you'll look up and you'll get a real sense of the dark and the work involved to climb towards the light, the truth.

Salena Godden

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#10. If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...

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#11. The stitch of a book is its words.

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#12. 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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#13. To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

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#14. 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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#15. I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

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#16. Memory is the only friend of grief.

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#17. I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

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#18. Wanting is the beginning of getting.

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#19. 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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#20. Harriet told her, 'Captain John was so brave. He stayed there in the battle until his leg was shot off.' Victoria's brown eyes rested thoughtfully on Captain John. Why didn't he stay until the other leg was shot off?' she asked. But he still seemed to like Victoria best.

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#21. 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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#22. When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full.

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#23. We would rather not play with you," said Anne.
"Because you're a little rotter," said Tom.

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#24. 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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#25. To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

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#26. remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know,

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#27. Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.

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#28. 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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#29. Every piece of writing ... starts from what I call a grit ... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass away ... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

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#30. Cleverness is a disease.

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#31. 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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#32. One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

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#33. I wish I knew when I was going to die,' ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, 'I wish I knew.'
'Why, Dame?'
'Then I should know what to read next.

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#34. Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am

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#35. Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink ...

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#36. Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

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#37. It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

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#38. Eliot always said, "I'm sorry. I had to do that." If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry.

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#39. You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.

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#40. and send a big proportion to the minesweepers. Mrs Godden, the antique shop owner, says the two pleasure steamers, which used to call at Worthing, are now minesweeping.

Joan Strange

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#41. He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.

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#42. The human heart
Is unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always.

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#43. Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be
" she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, "You have to be tall as well," said Harriet.

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#44. At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.

Robert Godden

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#45. 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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#46. They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

Salena Godden

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#47. Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said."
"But they are not your friends," said Nabir. "You don't know them."
"Respect first," Nabir would have said if he could have explained, "friendship after.

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#48. Sometimes it seemed to him that the house had a bad wild life of its own; the impression of its evil lingered, in its name, in its atmosphere ...

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#49. This Journey is in reverse, my father is the stop I missed, he is the station I dreamt of when I was sleeping

Salena Godden

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#50. There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

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#51. When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.

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#52. In California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

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#53. So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.

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#54. When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

Salena Godden

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#58. You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die ... Willy-nilly.

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#59. Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

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