Jan Struther - Mrs. Miniver (1939)

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The great thing, perhaps was not to be too successful too young.

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It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

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In childhood the daylight always fails too soon — except when there are going to be fireworks;

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'One is what one remembers: no more, no less.' I thought that was true when I wrote it, but I see now that it is only half of the truth. One is partly what one remembers, and partly what one is planning for.

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The chrysanthemums... were the big mop-headed kind, burgundy-coloured, with curled petals; their beauty was noble, architectural.

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She noted with delight that he really did say "Ha!" This made a valuable addition to her collection. She had lately acquired a "Humph!" and two "Whews!" but she was still waiting in vain for a "Pshaw!"

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How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

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Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

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The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

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To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal.

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Days were the units which mattered most, being divided from each other by the astounding phenomenon of losing and regaining consciousness. (How brave, how trustful people are, to dare to go to sleep!)

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Swans... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

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Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.

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