Ruth Draper Quotes

• Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

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  Life, Wonder, Too Short

  Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.26, SIU Press

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• Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

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  Children, Eye, Perspective

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• Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

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  Enthusiasm, Awareness, Ends

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• all my wealth is in my memories.

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  Memories, Wealth

  Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.134, SIU Press

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• the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

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  Success, Want, Trouble

  Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”

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• ... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

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  Long, Goes On, Life Is

  Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.141, SIU Press

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• ... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

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  Healing, Love Is, Giving

  Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.147, SIU Press

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• He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

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  Sensitive Person, Type, Said

  Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”

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