Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 221)
23:49, 19. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
If only one could clear out one's mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one's wardrobe...
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 193)
15:24, 19. april 2017* Ingen har det som favoritt.
...how can any real connection be established between two persons when one is eating and the other merely watching?
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 144)
01:59, 19. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
But surely liking the same things for dinner is one of the deepest and most lasting thigs you could possibly have in common with anyone.
Solveig siterer Some Tame Gazelle av Barbara Pym (side 84)
12:11, 18. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... there was a certain pleasure in not doing something; it was impossible that one's high expectations should be disappointed by the reality.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 133)
03:55, 16. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
There's nothing so lonely as unemployment, even if you're on a queue with a thousand others.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 65)
11:41, 15. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
The waiter invited them to choose between the coq au vin and navarin of lamb, either of which, in other circumstances, would have been called stew.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 53)
01:18, 15. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Decision is tormet for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.
Solveig siterer Offshore av Penelope Fitzgerald (side 26)
01:15, 15. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great cpacity for happiness.
Solveig siterer The Bookshop (Flamingo) av Penelope Fitzgerald
22:26, 4. april 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to matters of self-preservation.
Søstre som hovedpersoner
Solveig siterer Less Than Angels (VMC) av Barbara Pym (side 35)
11:03, 23. oktober 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Like many other well-meaning people, they worried not so much about the dreadful things themselves as about their own inability to worry about them.
Solveig siterer Excellent Women (VMC Designer Collection) av Barbara Pym (side 222)
15:21, 12. oktober 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Perhaps I really enjoyed other people’s lives more than I did my own.
Solveig siterer Excellent Women (VMC Designer Collection) av Barbara Pym (side 221)
15:20, 12. oktober 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
... why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vein hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all
Monica Kristensen skriver godt, hun dokumenterer godt og dette er en av de beste dokumentarbøkene jeg har lest fra etterkrigstiden i Norge. Alf R. Jacobsen må finne seg i å ligge en divisjon under. Men Kristensen/redaktør snubler på målstreken: Boken slutter med å spekulere i sekundene mot selve ulykken og da skjer en ekte slurvefeil, for siste setning i selve boka er: "Det er mandag 5. november 1963 og klokken har blitt 22:45.". Kings Bayulykken skjedde 5. november 1962, noe som er helt riktig skrevet i resten av boka.
Og Kristensen skriver i etterord at hun takker for hjelpen med romanen? Hvorfor i all verden er dette plutselig en roman nå, når både ingress, bakside og boka er en dokumentar? Et forsøk på knebling?
Solveig siterer Excellent Women (VMC Designer Collection) av Barbara Pym (side 161)
16:51, 7. oktober 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
If I ever wrote a novel it would be of the ‘stream of consciousness’ type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.
Solveig siterer Excellent Women (VMC Designer Collection) av Barbara Pym (side 124)
16:50, 7. oktober 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I heard myself murmuring politely that I had arrived too early, as if it were actually my fault that she was late.
Solveig siterer A Glass Of Blessings (Virago Modern Classics) av Barbara Pym (side 213)
10:25, 23. september 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Aren't we all colleagues, in a sense, in this grim business of getting through life as best we can.
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