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Barbara Mary Crampton Pym è stata una scrittrice britannica.

✵ 2. Giugno 1913 – 11. Gennaio 1980

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Excellent Women
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Excellent Women
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Barbara Pym Frasi e Citazioni

Barbara Pym: Frasi in inglese

“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 libro 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 libro Excellent Women

Origine: Excellent Women

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

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Barbara Pym libro Quartet in Autumn

Origine: 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 libro Excellent Women

Origine: 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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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 libro Some Tame Gazelle

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

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