Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBEwas a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 October 1889
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The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life.' So I went through the gateway in an upper room in the Cafe Royal.
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Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.
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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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Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
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But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.
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After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
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Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
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Things come suitable to the time.
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One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
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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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You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
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Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
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Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!