Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

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Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures nor on the television about it. Not in any way ever, at all. Not by being a soldier, sailor, airman, work in factory or above all at atom bombs. Above all at atom bombs. No obligation for this, dear fellow creature. Signed Your Fellow Creature.'
'P.S.,' said Gerald slowly, without turning from the window, 'If we all do this, we shall succeed.

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés inspirational war

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Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés pure-joy

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Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés pure-joy

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... on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being bothered to do things, and laughing at the kind of joke other people didn't think at all funny, and going for country walks, and not being asked to express opinions about things (like love, and isn't so-and-so peculiar?)

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés my-way

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Haven't you enough money?'
For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés money to-the-point

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By the way, I adore my bedroom, but do you think I could have the curtains washed? I believe they are red; and I should so like to make sure.'
Judith had sunk into a reverie.
'Curtains?' she asked, vacantly, lifting her magnificent head. 'Child, child, it is many years since such trifles broke across the web of my solitude'.

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés curtains

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But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.

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The audience had run to beards and magenta shirts and original ways of arranging its neckwear; and not content with the ravages produced in its over-excitable nervous system by the remorseless workings of its critical intelligence, it had sat through a film of Japanese life called 'Yes,' made by a Norwegian film company in 1915 with Japanese actors, which lasted an hour and three-quarters and contained twelve close-ups of water-lilies lying perfectly still on a scummy pond and four suicides, all done extremely slowly.

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Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.

Stella Gibbons

Mots clés humour

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