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Top 30 Dawn Powell Quotes (2025 Update)

Dawn Powell Quote: “Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”

1. “Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.”

2. “All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.”

3. “There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.”

4. “I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow – sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed – and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.”

5. “I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow – sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed – and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”

6. “Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.”

7. “A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don’t believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.”

8. “I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don’t believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same – dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits – the repetition through the ages is comedy.”

9. “The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same – dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits – the repetition through the ages is comedy.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.”

10. “No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “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 by injustice, malice or personal attack.”

11. “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 by injustice, malice or personal attack.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.”

12. “For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.”

13. “Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.”

14. “Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Modesty’s no credit to anyone-it’s just a social grace.”

15. “Modesty’s no credit to anyone-it’s just a social grace.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.”

16. “There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph in having conquered the great city and brings home the ungratifying truth that anyone can do it.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul.”

17. “It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “That’s the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.”

18. “That’s the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much – more and more.”

19. “Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much – more and more.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.”

20. “Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.”

21. “A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.”

22. “Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “A novel is like a gland pill – it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.”

23. “A novel is like a gland pill – it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated.”

24. “It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Sometimes she wondered if there could be a limit to these twilight voyages, if some day she would stray too far and there would be no bridge nor bell to bring her home.”

25. “Sometimes she wondered if there could be a limit to these twilight voyages, if some day she would stray too far and there would be no bridge nor bell to bring her home.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.”

26. “Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything.”

27. “My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “That’s why I ca never be happy with simple, good people”, she thought. “It isn’t enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!”

28. “That’s why I ca never be happy with simple, good people”, she thought. “It isn’t enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she’d be twenty-five years old.”

29. “She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she’d be twenty-five years old.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.”

30. “How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “What were you to do when you didn’t know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn’t just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop contagious ugliness from spreading.”

31. “What were you to do when you didn’t know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn’t just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop contagious ugliness from spreading.”

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Dawn Powell Quote: “Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance.”

32. “Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance.”

— Dawn Powell

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