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 …

- Dawn Powell

There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your tr…

- Dawn Powell

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 cag…

- Dawn Powell

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

- Dawn Powell

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

- Dawn Powell

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…

- Dawn Powell

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

- Dawn Powell

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

- Dawn Powell

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of lo…

- Dawn Powell