Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy Gilman

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Last updated on November 23, 2024.

Dorothy Edith Gilman was an American writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espionage meant young government men like James Bond and the spies of John le Carré and Graham Greene, Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the CIA and the local garden club.

American - Writer | June 25, 1923 - February 2, 2012

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A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman

The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

Dorothy Gilman

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Dorothy Gilman

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.

Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

Dorothy Gilman

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

Dorothy Gilman

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

Dorothy Gilman

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

Dorothy Gilman

Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.

Dorothy Gilman

Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.

Dorothy Gilman

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Dorothy Gilman

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

Dorothy Gilman

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

Dorothy Gilman

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

Dorothy Gilman

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

Dorothy Gilman

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Dorothy Gilman

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

Dorothy Gilman

Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy Gilman

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