She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

—Daphne du Maurier in Frenchman's Creek

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About Daphne du Maurier

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Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist. Du Maurier spent much of...

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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 in Rebecca

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