Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike;… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.” — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks; — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
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