Enid Bagnold quotes
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“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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“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... 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 out of life, even if it's a cactus.”
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“I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.”
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“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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“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”
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“if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.”
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“Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1918). “A Diary Without Dates”
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“Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
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“An only child is never twelve.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.”
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“But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.”
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“After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.”
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“Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.”
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“Things come suitable to the time.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.33, Courier Corporation
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“One can lie, but truth is more interesting.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.”
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“There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.”
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“The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.”
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“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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“As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.”
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“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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“I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“Judges don't age. Time decorates them.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“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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“It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.”
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“Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'”
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“Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
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“Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.”
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“You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“One never knows when one is old for certain.”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
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“From birth to death we are alone ...”
-- Enid BagnoldSource : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
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“It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.”
-- Enid Bagnold
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