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Famous Daphne du Maurier Quotes
“You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”
Source: Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
Source: The Rebecca notebook and other memories
“Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
“When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.”
Source: Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short
“A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel
“When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.”
“People who travel are always fugitives.”
Source: Frenchman's creek
Source: Vanishing Cornwall
“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”
Source: Vivien Leigh: a biography