Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.
I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it. - Barbara Pym
I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
- Barbara Pym
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 … - Barbara Pym
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 …
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 b… - Barbara Pym
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 b…
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? … - Barbara Pym
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? …
Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink. - Barbara Pym
Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with a… - Barbara Pym
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with a…
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. - Barbara Pym
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
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. - Barbara Pym
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.
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels. - Barbara Pym
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.
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