21 Quotes & Sayings By Amelia Barr

Amelia Barr was born in 1899 in New York City. Her father was an artist, her mother a musician. When Amelia was 11, her family went to France, where she learned French and learned to ride horses. Years later she moved to Paris, where she met many of the most brilliant people of the day Read more

She worked as a translator and interpreter, but eventually focused on writing. Her first novel was published in 1946; since then she has written twenty-seven novels, including The Island of Dr. Moreau (1958), which was made into a film starring Richard Burton and Marlon Brando; The Loving Kind (1970), which was made into an acclaimed film starring Susan Sarandon; and The Mermaid Chair (1983). Amelia Barr died in Paris on August 8, 2007 at the age of 95.

At the time of her death, she lived in St.-Paul de Vence with her husband Georges Zemaître, whom she had married in 1940 after meeting him while vacationing on the French Riviera. A memorial service for her will be held at a later date at a location to be announced.

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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished. Amelia Barr
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With renunciation life begins. Amelia Barr
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The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them. Amelia Barr
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Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you. Amelia Barr
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We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition. Amelia Barr
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A good message will always find a messenger. Amelia Barr
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. Amelia Barr
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Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others. Amelia Barr
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There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered and of small importance. Amelia Barr
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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. Amelia Barr
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away. Amelia Barr
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Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. Amelia Barr
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr
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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia Barr
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. Amelia Barr
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Old age is the verdict of life. Amelia Barr
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It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. Amelia Barr
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. Amelia Barr