"There are some things too dreadful to be……" — Barbara Pym
"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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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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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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