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Edith Templeton
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Edith Templeton (7 April 1916 – 12 June 2006) was a Bohemian novelist, who also wrote under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook.
Quotes
Women are like teeth. Some tremble and never fall and some fall and never tremble.
The Surprise of Cremona (1954), sec. 5, "Urbino". Reported in The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations (Viking, 1993) p. 367
My mind sometimes wanders. Do unto others and so on. Very nice again, but what if others have a different taste from yours? I don't remember who said it.
Summer in the Country (London: The Hogarth Press, 1985) p. 143
Gordon (1966)
The New English Library
It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street corners. When plunged into a bowl of water, the tightly sealed shell opens and the flat, dry, coiled-up, insignificant shreds of paper contained within float out and unfold their variegated and unsuspected splendour; with Gordon I had found my bowl of water.
Ch. 3
Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to his virility. No one else before him had given me this gratification, but I realised now that the longing to be violated, body and soul, must have always been inside me.
Ch. 3
You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.
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Category:1916 births
Category:2006 deaths
Category:Novelists from the Czech Republic
Category:Women authors from the Czech Republic
Category:Women born in the 1910s
Category:People from Prague