48 Quotes by Dawn Powell

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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.

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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.

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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.

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    Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much – more and more.

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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.

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    Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.

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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.

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    Sometimes she wondered if there could be a limit to these twilight voyages, if some day she would stray too far and there would be no bridge nor bell to bring her home.

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    Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

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