Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

BARBARA PYM

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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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I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.

BARBARA PYM

I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.
BARBARA PYM

May Trying
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

BARBARA PYM

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.
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Three
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

BARBARA PYM

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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Absurd Trying
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.

BARBARA PYM

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.
BARBARA PYM

Cooks
I love Evensong. There’s something sad and essentially English about it.
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English Even Something
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.

BARBARA PYM

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.
BARBARA PYM

Inspire Waiting
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

BARBARA PYM

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.
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Long
Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink.

BARBARA PYM

Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink.
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Drink Librarian Smell
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

BARBARA PYM

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
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might Unrequited Love
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

BARBARA PYM

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
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Hand
What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.
BARBARA PYM

Helping Things
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

BARBARA PYM

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.
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Anything Appear Depressing Littles
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.

BARBARA PYM

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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Dramatic
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

BARBARA PYM

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
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She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

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She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.
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Reader Unashamed
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.

BARBARA PYM

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.
BARBARA PYM

Self

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