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Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.


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DAPHNE DU MAURIER As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like wom...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instrument...
DAPHNE ROSE KINGMA We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopel...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because th...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. J...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind
DAPHNE DU MAURIER a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER What trail of thought, confused and indirect, drove through those minds of theirs, to cloud their ju...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhap...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aq...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted....
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER