Nancy Spain quotes
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“There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.”
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“It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.”
-- Nancy SpainSource : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
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“Everything begins in Paris.”
-- Nancy SpainSource : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
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“Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.”
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“Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.”
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“I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.”
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“The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.”
-- Nancy SpainSource : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
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“I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.”
-- Nancy SpainSource : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
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“I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.”
-- Nancy SpainSource : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
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“In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.”
-- Nancy SpainSource : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
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