In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and tak… - Rosamond Lehmann
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and tak…
- Rosamond Lehmann
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. - Rosamond Lehmann
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface… - Rosamond Lehmann
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface…
[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. - Rosamond Lehmann
[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history. - Rosamond Lehmann
Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, … - Rosamond Lehmann
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, …
One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm. - Rosamond Lehmann
One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. - Rosamond Lehmann
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame? - Rosamond Lehmann
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?
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