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Nancy Freeman-Mitford – angielska powieściopisarka i biografka.

Pochodziła z rodziny arystokratycznej. Najbardziej znana z cyklu powieści o życiu wyższych sfer w Anglii i Francji. Napisała także cztery dobrze przyjęte popularne biografie .

Większość życia spędziła w Londynie i Paryżu[potrzebny przypis]. Zawsze elegancko ubrana, dowcipna, wiodła prym w paryskim światku arystokracji i przybyszów z różnych stron świata. Autorka cenionej korespondencji. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Listopad 1904 – 30. Czerwiec 1973
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Nancy Mitford: Cytaty po angielsku

“Well, now you can see for yourself that she was delicate", said Davey triumphantly. "She's dead. It killed her. Doesn't that show you? I do wish I could make you Radletts understand that there is no such thing as imaginary illness. Nobody who is quite well could possibly be bothered to do all the things that I, for instance, am obliged to, in order to keep my wretched frame on its feet.”

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Nancy Mitford książka Love in a Cold Climate

Źródło: Love in a Cold Climate

“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”

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Nancy Mitford

Źródło: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

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“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”

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Nancy Mitford książka The Pursuit of Love

Źródło: The Pursuit of Love

“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”

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Nancy Mitford książka Christmas Pudding

Źródło: Christmas Pudding

“Sun, silence, and happiness.”

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Nancy Mitford książka The Pursuit of Love

Źródło: The Pursuit of Love

“always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives”

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Nancy Mitford książka The Pursuit of Love

Źródło: The Pursuit of Love

“But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.'
Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”

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Nancy Mitford

Źródło: The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate