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

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

Barbara Pym

“If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.”
“Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.”
“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.”
“I don't want to be lumped into any categories.”
“It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.”
“There is no such thing as a really rich victim.”
“I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.”

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