Barbara Pym Quotes

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

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  Love, Trying, Absurd

  Barbara Pym (2013). “A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• Las pequeñas cosas de la vida eran a menudo mucho más grandes que las grandes cosas... el placer trivial como cocinar, la propia casa, los pequeños poemas especialmente los tristes, los paseos solitarios, las cosas divertidas vistas y oídas por casualidad.

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  Home, Funny Things, Cooking

  Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

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  People, Three, Paper

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.16, Penguin

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• Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

  Barbara Pym

  Smell, Drink, Librarian

  "Less than angels".

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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 a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

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  Thinking, Hands, Dramatic

  Barbara Pym (1978). “Excellent Women”, Dutton Adult

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• I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

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  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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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. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.

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  Hurt, Night, Missing

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• Mis pensamientos daban vueltas y vueltas y se me ocurrió que si alguna vez escribía una novela sería del tipo "flujo de conciencia" y trataría de una hora en la vida de una mujer en el lavabo.

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  Would Be, Consciousness, Hours

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.120, Penguin

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• There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.

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  Oxford, Differences, People

  Barbara Pym (1986). “Crampton Hodnet”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

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  Novel, Reader

  Barbara Pym (2015). “Quartet in Autumn: Picador Classic”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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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 by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.

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  Love, Real, Sunshine

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

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  Giving, Helping, Good Things

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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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 knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

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  Lonely, Men, Self

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

  Barbara Pym

  Writing, Imagine, Cooks

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• 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.

  Barbara Pym

  Long, Instinct, Spite

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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.

  Barbara Pym

  Libro, Lectura, Manos

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• Hay varias formas de reparar un corazón roto, pero quizá acudir a una conferencia erudita sea una de las más inusuales.

  Barbara Pym

  Corazón, Roto, Camino

  Barbara Pym (2011). “No Fond Return Of Love”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

  Barbara Pym

  Life Is, Terrible, Terrible Things

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• It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

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  Mind, Important, Odd

  Barbara Pym (2013). “An Unsuitable Attachment”, p.164, Pan Macmillan

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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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  People, Upset, Library

  Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”

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• I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.

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  People, Trying, May

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin

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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 was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

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  Aunt, Laughing, Firsts

  Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

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  Encouragement, Unrequited Love, Might

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin

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• Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

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  Writing, Kind, Pleasure

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• You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

  Barbara Pym

  Depressing, Littles, Too Much

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.39, Penguin

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