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Barbara Mary Crampton Pym est une romancière britannique.

✵ 2. juin 1913 – 11. janvier 1980
Barbara Pym: 7 citations0 J'aime

Barbara Pym: Citations en anglais

“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”

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Barbara Pym livre Less than Angels

Less than Angels (1955), chapter 9

“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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Barbara Pym livre Excellent Women

Source: Excellent Women

“She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.”

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Barbara Pym livre Quartet in Autumn

Source: Quartet in Autumn

“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 an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”

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Barbara Pym livre Excellent Women

Source: Excellent Women

“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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Barbara Pym

Jane and Prudence (1953), chapter 7

“The new curate seemed quite a nice young man, but what a pity it was that his combinations showed, tucked carelessly into his socks, when he sat down.”

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Barbara Pym livre Some Tame Gazelle

Some Tame Gazelle (1950), chapter 1, opening sentence

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