The Door
Magda Szabó
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed.”
“I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”
“She was lonely. Who isn't lonely, I'd like to know? And that includes people who do have someone but just haven't noticed.”
“Books formed the basis of my world, my unit of measure was the printed word,”
“We were both wrong: she who put her faith in me, and I who thought too well of myself.”
“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed—stimulus and composure, inner peace and a kind of bitter-sweet excitement.”
“I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current.”
“God usually ignored us when asked for something, but he invariably granted what we feared.”
“Once again her face changed. She was like someone standing in strong sunlight on a mountain top, looking back down the valley from which she had emerged and trembling with the memory still in her bones of the length and nature of the road she had travelled, the glaciers and forded rivers, the weariness and danger, and conscious of how far she still had to go.”
“If there's no-one to show pleasure when you come home, then it's better not to live.”
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