Quotes by Dawn Powell - Page 1

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Laughter
Oxygen
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All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Ifs
Ohio
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A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Forests
Instinct
Rich
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A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Capacity
Mind
Overboard
Requisite
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There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Cities
Majors
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Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Lovely
Lovely Day
Together
Love Together Day
Joe
More And More
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For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Genius
Selfless
World
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Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Love
Beautiful
Mosaics
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A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Gossip
People
Vices
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Dawn Powell / Writer
People
Realism
Romanticism
Satire
Writing
Seem
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Love
Peace
Contentment
Excitement
Flow
Peaceful
Quiet
Rushing
Days
Life Nature Better
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Running
Book
Cream
Novel
Rioting
Track
Writing
Belong
Gland
Pill
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Age
Burlesque
Dupes
Ingredients
Repetition
Tragic
Ages
Dupe
Fox
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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).
Dawn Powell / Writer
Men
War
Comedy
Disease
Greed
Helplessness
Lust
Tragedy
Vanity
Basis
Love War Death
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Kindness
Injustice
Pessimistic
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Girl
August
Baby
Believe
Dawn
Dearest
Everyone Else
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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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Artist
Needs
People
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Bed
Dear
Hands
Kissing
Night
Pillow
Thrown
Yellow
Arm
Lover
Drawn
Softly
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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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
New York
Home
Cities
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You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? -and then you remembered the nightmare....This was no time for beauty, for love, or private future....There was no future; everyone waited, marked time, waited. For what?
Dawn Powell / Writer
Morning
Eye
Lost Love
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Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? 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.
Dawn Powell / Writer
Childhood
Evil
Years
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An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.
Dawn Powell / Writer
New York
Cities
Garden
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