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Vote: | A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. |
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Vote: | As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. |
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Vote: | If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. |
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Vote: | In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. |
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Vote: | Judges don't age; time decorates them. |
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Vote: | Sex - the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator. |
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Vote: | The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff. |
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Vote: | The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. |
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Vote: | When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. |
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Enid Bagnold (October 27, 1889 – March 31, 1981) was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet, filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.
She was born in Rochester, Kent and brought up mostly in Jamaica. She went to art school in London, and then worked for Frank Harris (who seduced her in an upstairs room at the Café Royal, one of his verifiable conquests).
She was a nurse during World War I, writing critically of the hospital administration and being dismissed. She then was a driver in France. In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones, becoming Lady Jones. She continued to use her maiden name for her writing.
Works
*A Diary Without Dates (1917)
*The Sailing Ships and other poems (1918)
*The Happy Foreigner (1920)
*Serena Blandish or the Difficulty of Getting Married (1924) as A Lady of Quality
*Alice & Thomas & Jane (1930)
*National Velvet (1935)
*The Door of Life (1938)
*The Squire (1938)
*Lottie Dundass (1943) play
*Two Plays (1944)
*The Loved and Envied (1951)
*Theatre (1951)
*The Girl's Journey (1954)
*The Chalk Garden (1956) play
*The Chinese Prime Minister (1964) play
*Autobiography (1969)
*Four Plays (1970)
*Matter of Gravity (1975) play
*Poems (1978)
*Letters to Frank Harris & Other Friends (1980)
*Early Poems (1987)
...(more on Wikipedia)
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