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Book: Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer
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  1. Daphne du Maurier _ Myself When Young: The Shaping

    The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so was that M happened to be out at the time and I thought I could save myself trouble.
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  2. Daphne du Maurier _ Myself When Young: The Shaping

    Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the very knowledge that they belong to a past we have not known ourselves induces fancy.
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  3. Daphne du Maurier _ Myself When Young: The Shaping

    It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that.
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  4. Daphne du Maurier _ Myself When Young: The Shaping

    Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.
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  5. Daphne du Maurier _ Myself When Young: The Shaping

    We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.
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