48 Dawn Powell Quotes on Comedy, Childhood suffering and The Locusts Have No King - Quotes.pub

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She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she’d be twenty-five years old.

My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything.

That’s the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul.

What were you to do when you didn’t know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn’t just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop contagious ugliness from spreading.

Modesty’s no credit to anyone-it’s just a social grace.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much – more and more.

A novel is like a gland pill – it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same – dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits – the repetition through the ages is comedy.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness – since I am always so bowled over by it – and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don’t believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow – sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed – and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.

whither Quotes

Modesty's no credit to anyone-it's just a social grace.

Come Back to Sorrento Quotes

Listen, nobody has to give up anything unless they really want to or are too darned weak. If Mama really could have done anything she would have-if anybody wants something all she needs do is go and get it. There aren’t any excuses.

Come Back to Sorrento Quotes

That’s why I can never be happy with simple, good people”, she thought. “It isn’t enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

Come Back to Sorrento Quotes

That’s why I ca never be happy with simple, good people”, she thought. “It isn’t enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

Come Back to Sorrento Quotes

Sometimes she wondered if there could be a limit to these twilight voyages, if some day she would stray too far and there would be no bridge nor bell to bring her home.

Come Back to Sorrento Quotes

That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.

Dance Night Quotes

What were you to do when you didn't know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn't just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop conyagious ugliness from spreading.

Dance Night Quotes

She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she'd be twenty-five years old.

Dance Night Quotes

Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring. You bodly threw down your challenges and then ran away in a childish panic when someone picked them up...

Dance Night Quotes

Suddenly he thought he had lived over stores long enough, he wanted someplace to stretch his long limbs, someplace where he belonged, where he wasn't always ducking to keep out of peoples' way. Gardens, chateaux- Morry saw them laid out like spangled Christmas cards- vividly colored invitations to a fairytale world. He felt homesick for spacious houses set in spreading lawns fringed with great calm shade trees-he was homesick for things he had never known, for families he had only read about, he missed people-old friends that had lived only in the novels he had read. Homesick... for a Lamptown that Hogan has just created out of six beers.

Dance Night Quotes

No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.

Dance Night Quotes

I'm not afraid of her," she said. "That's just the way old women are. I'm not afraid of anybody. I feel sorry for them, coming to me someday begging me to forgive 'em because they didn't realize I was going to turn out so rich and famous.

Dance Night Quotes

Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.

Angels on Toast Quotes

It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated.

Angels on Toast Quotes

If she cried about little things now and then, and he supposed she did, he did not know what it was and certainly did not want to find out. If he himself felt sunk he didn’t want anybody asking what was the matter with him, and Mary, even if she noticed, did not ask questions. If he suspected she disapproved of something he said or did-he was forever doing something wrong about her aunt and uncle-all she did was to stay in her room with a headache for a couple of days. It couldn’t have been a more agreeable relationship.

Angels on Toast Quotes

Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

Friendship Quotes / The diaries Quotes 1931-1965 Quotes

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.

Angels on Toast Quotes

Satire is people as they are; romanticism people as they would like to be; realism people as they seem with their insides left out.

Turn Quotes Magic Wheel Quotes

There was gray train smoke over the town most days, it smelled of travel, of transcontinental trains about to flash by, of important things about to happen. The train smell sounded the ‘A’ for Lamptown and then a treble chord of frying hamburger and onions and boiling coffee was struck by Hermann Bauer's kitchen, with a sostenuto of stale beer from Delaney's back door. These were all busy smells and seemed a 6 to 6 smell, a working town's smell, to be exchanged at the last factory whistle for the festival night odors of popcorn, Spearmint chewing gum, barber-shop pomades, and the faint smell of far-off damp cloverfields. Mornings the cloverfields retreated when the first Columbus local roared through the town. Bauer’s coffee pot boiled over again, and the factory’s night watchmen filed into Delaney’s for their morning beer.

Music Quotes / Dance Night Quotes Metaphorically speaking Quotes Smells Quotes

What were you to do when you didn't know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn't just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop contagious ugliness from spreading.

Dance Night Quotes

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul

Dance Night Quotes

Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.

The Locusts Have No King Quotes

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.

Childhood Quotes / Childhood suffering Quotes Dance Night Quotes

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

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Humanity Quotes / Comedy Quotes Human nature Quotes Repetition Quotes Tragedy Quotes

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.