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Barbara Pym has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 first instinct…
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Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they…
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I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with…
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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, perhaps sometimes…
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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 recollect in…
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot.…
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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 reading.
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily…
— Anthony Bourdain
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins…
— Charles Lamb
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
— Yehuda Amichai
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Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of…
— Terry Riley
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
— Laurence Sterne
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There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
— Anna Godbersen
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
— Jacqueline Carey
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I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking,…
— Barbara Pym
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