Frases de Barbara Pym (9 citas)

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Excellent Women

Barbara Pym

Excellent Women

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“Me apresuraré a añadir que no me parezco en absoluto a Jane Eyre, que debe de haber hecho concebir esperanzas a tantas mujeres feas que refieren su historia en primera persona…”

Barbara Pym libro Excellent Women

Excellent Women

“… porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas.”

Barbara Pym libro Excellent Women

Excellent Women

Barbara Pym: Frases en inglés

“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”

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Barbara Pym

“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

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

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Barbara Pym libro Quartet in Autumn

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“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

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“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 libro Some Tame Gazelle

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

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