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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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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Birth: | 28th November, 1896 |
Death: | 14th November, 1965 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
Dawn Powell was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio. She was an American novelist and writer. She had a prodigious output, producing hundreds of short stories, ten plays, and dozen novels. Her play Walking Down Broadway was filmed as Hello, Sister!, co-written and co-directed by Erich von Stroheim. Her novel Whither was published in 1925, but she always described She Walks in Beauty as her first. Her favorite of her own novels, Dance Night, came out in 1930.
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