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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: Love Men Novel Short Short Story Story Want Women

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: Happiness Mind Possession Prized Quality State Thought

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All autobiography is self-indulgent.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: Autobiography

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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: First Must Novel Person Writing

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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: About Book Did Dropped End Going He Hero House Know Life Mean Rather Really Strand Telephone Think You

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And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: Books Dropping Full Like Name Which

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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

~Daphne Du Maurier

Topics: Heard Neither Nor Read Seen Should Writers

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 13th, 1907

Died: April 19th, 1989

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