"The burden of keeping three people in toilet……" — Barbara Pym
"The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one."
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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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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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More Burden Quotes
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare…
— Michele Bachmann
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest…
— Lord Acton
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— Lord Acton
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
— David Bailey
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What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent…
— Bob Beauprez
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet…
— John Berger
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight…
— Vinoba Bhave
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things…
— Theodor Adorno
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We…
— Joe Biden
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