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Quote by Barbara Pym

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

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Barbara Pym was an English novelist known for her wit, humor, and delicate psychological portraits. Her works often focus on the lives of the middle class and are celebrated for their unique perspective and profound insight into everyday life. more

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”

People Turns Seeing Objects Gun Murder Cameras Photograph Appropriate Frightened Possessed Subliminal

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Said Happens Choices Race Alive Blood Century Events Adventure Thousand Quiet Importance Breaths Lips Focused Drawing Thousand Years Silk

Author:David Eddings

“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”

Men Writing Interest Vanity Pens Preoccupation

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.”

Sometimes Taken Theory Fit Devil Madness Fancy Consideration Classification Omission Caprice Volition Wild One

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”

Seems Extraordinary Extraordinary Things

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

“Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.”

Long Country Moments Happens Given Views Point Of View Realistic Simplest Actual Life

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“Love me like you'll never see me again.”

Like You Best Love

Author:Alicia Keys

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