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Barbara Pym quotes about look

English Novelist June 2, 1913 – January 11, 1980

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But of course, she remembered, that was why women were so wonderful; it was their love and imagination that transformed these unremarkable beings. For most men, when one came to think of it, were undistinguished to look at, if not positively ugly. Fabian was an exception, and perhaps love affairs with handsome men tended to be less stable because so much less sympathy and imagination were needed on the woman's part? Barbara Pym
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled... Barbara Pym
Jane decided he was certainly beautiful, with brown eyes and a well-shaped nose. It is a refreshing thing for an ordinary-looking woman to look at a beautiful man occasionally and Jane gave herself up to contemplation. Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym quote: "However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he..."
However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold. Barbara Pym
She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one. Barbara Pym

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