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“Going on a journey always makes me feel sick and nervous,' he explained rather apologetically, 'and one needs strengthening to face the good-byes.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“Obviously...' she looked down at the tablecloth. 'I heard you were attached too.'
'I? Don't you believe it," said Tom heartily. 'I'm wedded to my work.”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels

“War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.”
― Gilbert Parker, The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

“It would need the pen of a Dostoyevsky to do justice to their dreadful lives,”
― Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels