Citas de Rumer Godden

• Hay un proverbio indio que dice que cada persona es una casa con cuatro habitaciones: una física, una mental, una emocional y una espiritual. La mayoría de nosotros tendemos a vivir en una habitación la mayor parte del tiempo, pero a menos que vayamos a todas las habitaciones todos los días, aunque sólo sea para ventilarlas, no somos una persona completa.

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  Espiritual, Emocional, Personas

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• When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

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  Reading, Literacy, Born Again

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• I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

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  Creer, Diablo, Mets

  Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”

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• Memory is the only friend of grief.

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  Memories, Grief

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• Wanting is the beginning of getting.

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  Deseo

  Rumer Godden (2016). “An Episode of Sparrows”, p.107, New York Review of Books

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• A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

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  Gratitude, Cheer, Garden

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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• A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

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  Memories, Gold, Thesaurus

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• With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

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  Important, Littles, Born

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• It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

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  Dolls, Done, Sometimes

  Rumer Godden (2015). “The Dolls' House”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

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  Running, Thinking, Solitude

  Rumer Godden (1961). “Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further”

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• La mayoría de los adultos son como icebergs, tres décimas partes a la vista, siete décimas partes sumergidas; por eso una colisión con uno de ellos resulta inesperadamente hiriente.

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  People, Hurtful, Three

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

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  Dust, Felt, Indian

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Peacock Spring”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

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  Tea, Apricots, Cups

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• A medida que uno envejece, sentirse triste y desdichado puede convertirse en un hábito. Para contrarrestarlo, sugiere saborear cosas como el sabor de una pieza de fruta u otras pequeñas cosas que podríamos haber sido propensos a pasar por alto durante nuestros días más jóvenes y ocupados.

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  Being Sad, Age, Pieces

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• If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

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  Book, Two Sides, Giving

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• Toda obra escrita parte de lo que yo llamo un grito, una visión o un sonido, una frase o un suceso que no desaparece, sino que se instala inexplicablemente en la mente.

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  Writing, Sight, Mind

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• You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

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  Family, Friends, Nuisance

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• Para mí y para los míos, la vida misma es una historia y tenemos que contarla en historias, así nos va.

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  Fall, Stories, Way

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• if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

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  Thinking, Curiosity, Different

  Rumer Godden (1963). “The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. The Greengage Summer. An Episode of Sparrows”

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• I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

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  Happiness, Book, Two

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• Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

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  Age, Turns, Courses

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• To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

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  Firsts, Birth, First Time

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

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  Done, Stubbornness, Obstinate

  RUMER GODDEN (1961). “China Court”

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• For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

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  Book, Written

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• You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

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  Liars, Garden, House

  Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

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