"A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct."

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Source : Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

Dawn Powell

#Forests Quotes #Rich Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
“I don't even know if you're allowed to say this. But just like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you also can't be a little bit spread.”
“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
“American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.”
“If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19Â½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.”
“The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.”
“Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.”

Source : "Trisha Goddard: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 20`3.
“I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.”

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