A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Dawn Powell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dawn Powell. Show all posts
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Quote of the Day (Dawn Powell, on How ‘Gaiety Should Be Brave’)

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“Gaiety should be brave, it should have stout legs of truth, not a gelatine base of dreams and wishes.”— American novelist, short-sto...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Quote of the Day (Dawn Powell, Defining Satire, Romanticism and Realism)

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“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Quote of the Day (Dawn Powell, on Friendship in Youth and Age)

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“Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.”— Novelist Dawn Powell, The Di...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Quote of the Day (Dawn Powell, on the Travails of Writing)

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July 20 [1931]. “When writing was a hobby I wrote five to seven hours a day regularly. Now that it is a profession, I find it almost impossi...
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