Daphne Du Maurier Tapestries

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca Opening Line

Daphne du Maurier portrait with a quote from Rebecca: Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Daphne du Maurier quote: "Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: “A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.”

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Daphne du Maurier quote: “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: “I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire.”

Daphne du Maurier quote: If only there could be an invention, that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

Daphne du Maurier portrait with a quote from Rebecca: Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.

Daphne du Maurier quote: I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Daphne du Maurier portrait and quote: 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.

Daphne du Maurier quote: I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

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Rebecca, adapted from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film and his first for producer David O. Selznik. Hitchcock's Rebecca Inspired Design features the stars of the award winning film Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson.

This is a book cover of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again

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The 'Jamaica Inn' has this to tell about its link with the world famous author Daphne Du Maurier: On a cold and eerie night in 1930, writer Daphne du Maurier arrived at Jamaica Inn high on the windswept Bodmin Moor (Cornwall, UK). The following day she went riding with a friend but mist suddenly came down, they got lost and it started to get dark. In the end they saved themselves by dismounting and seeing if their horses would lead them back, which thankfully they did. Daphne stayed a few more nights to recover from the ordeal and learned about the legendary history of Jamaica Inn including the smuggling that had gone on there. This, the atmosphere of the hostelry and the wild moor inspired her to write her most famous and compelling n...

I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of the world!

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