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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

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Barbara Pym

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

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She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

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Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things. . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

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The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

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