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Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
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My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.
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Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.
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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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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Pym
Born:
June 2, 1913
Died:
January 11, 1980
(aged 66)
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