Dorothy Richardson quotes
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“Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1931). “Dawn's Left Hand”
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“Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.”
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“Every thought vibrates through the universe.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.”
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“No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “The Tunnel”
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“Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”
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“Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”
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“The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.”
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“A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.”
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“until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Richardson (1905). “The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl”, p.45, University of Virginia Press
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“Coercion. The unpardonable crime.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”
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“People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.”
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“Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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“Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “Honeycomb”
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“If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.”
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1979). “Pilgrimage”
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