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Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
— Barbara Pym
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
— Barbara Pym
Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
— Barbara Pym
I hope you don't mind tea in mugs,' she said, coming in with a try. 'I told you I was a slut.
— Barbara Pym
It was only sometimes, when a spring day came in the middle of winter, that one had a sudden feeling that nothing was really impossible
— Barbara Pym
I think just a cup of tea...' There was something to be said for tea and a comfortable chat about crematoria.
— Barbara Pym
Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.
— Barbara Pym
She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.
— 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.
— 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.
— Barbara Pym
However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.
— Barbara Pym
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
— Barbara Pym
Well, then, we may as well find somewhere to have tea. After spiritual comes bodily refreshment.
— Barbara Pym
Just the kind of underclothes a person like me might wear, I thought dejectedly, so there is no need to describe them.
— Barbara Pym
But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.
— Barbara Pym
Yes, I like sitting at a table in the sun,' I agreed, 'but I'm afraid I'm one of those typical English tourists who always wants a cup of tea.
— Barbara Pym
Perhaps long spaghetti is the kind of thing that ought to be eaten quite alone with nobody to watch one's struggles. Surely
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in something for him, so I bought some white
— Barbara Pym
This may sound a cynical thing to say, but don't you think men sometimes leave difficulties to be solved by other people or to solve themselves? After
— Barbara Pym
What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.
— Barbara Pym
If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe.
— Barbara Pym
Oh, God, yes! You'd hate sharing a kitchen with me. I'm such a slut,' she said, almost proudly.
— Barbara Pym
Robina Fairfax's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own, so variously coloured and oddly shaped were they.
— Barbara Pym
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
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Yes! In the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live ALONE,
— Barbara Pym
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
— Barbara Pym
Also, it was the morning and it seemed a little odd to be thinking about poetry before luncheon.
— Barbara Pym
Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.
— Barbara Pym
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
— Barbara Pym
There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.
— Barbara Pym
Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it.
— Barbara Pym
It seems to be a kind of lounge,' she added, tripping over a small footstool. The floor seemed to be littered with them, like toadstools.
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Once you get into the habit of falling in love you will find that it happens quite often and means less and less,' said
— Barbara Pym
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
— Barbara Pym
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...
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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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Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people.
— Barbara Pym