"Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but……" — Jan Struther
"Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back."
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Jan Struther
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12 Quotes by Jan Struther
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And I am a mockery, who was God before.
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In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;
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A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of…
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It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.
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Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.
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It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements…
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Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make…
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There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air....…
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Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve…
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It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell…
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The blessed drink of early morning tea.
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