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  • Barbara Pym Quote - Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. Download This Image
  • Barbara Pym Quote - Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
  • Barbara Pym Quote - Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
  • Barbara Pym Quote - Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
  • Barbara Pym Quote - Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
  • Barbara Pym Quote - Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
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Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Barbara Pym

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - I love Evensong. There’s something sad and essentially English about it.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - Oh, this coming back to an empty house,’ Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People – though perhaps it was only women – seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to. Download This Image

    Oh, this coming back to an empty house,’ Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People – though perhaps it was only women – seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one’s mind. Download This Image

    It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one’s mind.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink. Download This Image

    Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

    What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Pym Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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