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Nan Fairbrother, born in 1913 in the United Kingdom, was a renowned writer known for her delicate emotions and profound insights. Her works, mainly novels and short stories, are characterized by their unique literary style and deep social observations.

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“children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.”

People Children Different Race Adults Versions Different Races

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.”

Children Hands Seems Left Deals Trouble Particular Difficulty Manage Goodwill

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.”

Children Sorrow Profound

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.”

Needs Dream Youth Discontent

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.”

Different Grows Plant Enthusiasm Soil

Book:The House

Source: The House

“the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.”

Ifs Needs Ends Bigs Together Black Growing Huge Goes On Summer Gun Protection Enormous Pairs Gardening Exaggeration Dusk Crocodiles Slugs End Of Summer

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.”

People Thinking Feels Home Happens Found Loss Our Lives Sadness Worst Leaving Treasure Sickness Going Away Overwhelmed Unbearable Parting Homesickness His Loss

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.”

Ifs Would Be Garden Plant Gardening Planting A Garden

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.”

Real Imagination Imagine Sorrow Profound Real Life

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.”

Mind Attitude Leisure Remission

Book:The House

Source: The House

“Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.”

Way Fighting Draws Obsession Contact Friendly Hostile

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.”

Stories Film Excellent Plot Momentum

Book:The House

Source: The House

“the urgent crowds out the essential.”

Essentials Crowds Priorities Urgent

Book:The House

Source: The House

“One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.”

Humans Use Human Beings Division

Book:The House

Source: The House

“Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.”

Should Understanding Offers Uninvited

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.”

People Company Envy

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?”

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.”

Would Be Happiness Stage Fine Possession Luxury Carefree Expendables

Book:The House

Source: The House

“Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.”

People Giving Problem Happiness Term Advice Solve Experts Other People's Problems

Book:The House

Source: The House

“A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.”

Men Nature Expression Gratitude Garden Appreciation Cheer Thankfulness Cheerfulness Benign Joyfulness

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.”

World Way Looks Book States Age Earth Turns Friendship Community Garden Educational Unconscious Patches

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.”

Knows Real Asks House Poor Views Beauty Higher Percent Towns Sells Agents Parks Flats Estates Surroundings Identical Estate Agents

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.”

Love Inspirational Feels Wells Shows Love You Affection Hardest Classroom Fountain Family Love Love And Affection

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.”

Evil Mankind Creatures Satisfied

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.”

People Inspirational Eye Stage Hair

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.”

Choices Design Materials Ordinary Plant Lists Significant Landscape Merit Collections Arrangements Best Design Best Poem

Book:The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity

Source: The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity

“Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.”

Whole Moments Turns Love Is Our Lives Summer Ordinary Stones Gold Philosopher Weather Transformed Being In Love Exquisite Ordinary Days Summer Weather

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

“It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.”

People Moments Emotion Tragedy Mood Sensitive

Book:An English Year

Source: An English Year

About the Author

Born: 1913
Died: 1971
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 28

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