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Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
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One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
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This was one of Cassandra's special virtues, that she anticipated her husband's wishes almost before he knew what they were.
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I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
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I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
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There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.
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I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.
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There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.
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Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it?... I expect it will be sit and wait.
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In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened, mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality.
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The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.
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It was often difficult to think of an apt quotation when one was in a hurry.
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Barbara Pym
Born:
June 2, 1913
Died:
January 11, 1980
(aged 66)
Bio:
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings.
Known for:
Excellent Women (1952)
Quartet in Autumn (1977)
Jane and Prudence (1953)
Some Tame Gazelle (1950)
A Glass of Blessings (1958)
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