"I pulled myself up and told myself to……" — 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."
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22 Quotes by Barbara Pym
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's…
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Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting…
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I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be…
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Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
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Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel,…
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Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
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Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to…
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the…
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I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
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Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
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I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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