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Nan Fairbrother Quotes

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The large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other’s moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) The urgent crowds out the essential  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) We are perverse creatures and never satisfied  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) The large black slugs... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other’s moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher’s stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) ... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) A garden is one of the few expressions of man’s nature that is altogether benign  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes) Most of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves  (Nan Fairbrother Quotes)