"Life is cruel and we do terrible things…" — Barbara Pym
"Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other."
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Barbara Pym
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22 Quotes by Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door.…
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
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Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under…
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
— Joseph Addison
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people…
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of…
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Terror made me cruel.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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