Quotes by Rumer Godden - Page 1

cleverness is a disease.
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Cleverness
Disease
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The stitch of a book is its words.
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Book
Stitches
Stitch
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Memory is the only friend of grief.
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Grief
Memories
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Wanting is the beginning of getting.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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Cheer
Garden
Gratitude
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I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
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Darcy
Husband
My Own
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It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
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Done
Obstinate
Stubbornness
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For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
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Book
Written
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The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
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Motto
Thorns
Circle
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Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
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Dust
Felt
Indian
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To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
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Birth
First Time
Firsts
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You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.
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Garden
House
Liars
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You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
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Family
Friends
Family Friends
Nuisance
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Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.
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Apricots
Cups
Tea
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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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Believe
Devil
Mets
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If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.
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Love Is
Matter
People
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Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
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Children
Different
Wonder
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When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
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Born Again
Literacy
Reading
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in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
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Beach
California
Thinking
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Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
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Age
Courses
Turns
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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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Fall
Stories
Way
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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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Garden
Joy
Simple
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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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Born
Important
Littles
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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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People
Should Have
Successful
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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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Cat
Author
Grown
Whose
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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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Book
Cat
Writing
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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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Hurtful
People
Three
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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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Dolls
Done
Sometimes
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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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Book
Carpet
Giving
Persian
Two Sides
Books
Bloom
Side
Gives
Wear
Makes
Outer
Stitch
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Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
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Mind
Sight
Writing
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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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Going Away
Solitude
Thinking
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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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Curiosity
Different
Thinking
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In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
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Running
Solitude
Thinking
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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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Gold
Memories
Thesaurus
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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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Age
Being Sad
Pieces
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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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Emotional
People
Spiritual
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I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.
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Happiness
Book
Two
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