Quotes by Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Lehmann

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can’t get on with them.

Men

Trouble

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

Gestation Period

Suffering

Writing

Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven’t got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

Advice

Giving

Interesting

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Change

Purpose

Spiritual

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Important

Poetry

Self

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Conventions

Habit

Names

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

Enjoy

Holiday

Ifs

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Ignorance

Long

Wonder

I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I’ve tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I’ve started thinking about the Spencers’ dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I’m going to try to do better this year–develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I’ve always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don’t want them.

Beautiful

Disappointment

Selfish

In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. … I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

Flower

Saws

White

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Beautiful

Change

Circles

Conventions

Different

Disappointment

Enjoy

Equal

Flower

Gestation Period

Giving

Habit

Holiday

Humility

Ifs

Ignorance

Imagination

Important

Interesting

Kindness

Long

Lying

Men

Names

Novel

Opportunity

Past

People

Poetry

Purpose

Respect

Rhythm

Saws

Self

Selfish

Shapes

Should

Spiritual

Suffering

Thinking

Trouble

Two

White

Wonder

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Quotes by Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Lehmann

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can’t get on with them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. … I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

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