A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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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..Enid Bagnold
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
Enid Bagnold
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
Enid Bagnold
Judges don't age; time decorates them.
Enid Bagnold
Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
Enid Bagnold
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