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Chandra’s Notes & Highlights

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

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‘I wish I understood Americans,’ said Charles-Edouard. ‘They are very strange. So good, and yet so dull.’

I love how Nancy equally skewers the French, the English and Americans.

See Chandra’s 8 books with notes and highlights…

“Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

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“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

tags: greatness

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“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.”
― Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

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