"There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas."

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Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

Angela Thirkell

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“Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.”
“Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.”
“What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.”
“I don't know if this sounds bad, but I am set. I don't spend my money. I don't buy cars or have an expensive drug habit. The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.”
“... Besides it's better to have Miyoshi around. You and me have a been together since Jr. High. Without her around people might think we're gay.”
“Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.”
“Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.”
“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

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