Rosemary Daniell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.
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Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.
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Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.
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A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.
-- Rosemary Daniell
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.
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It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.
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