Nancy Spain Quotes

• 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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  People, Forever, Alive

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• Only a fool would make the bed every day.

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  Bed, Fool

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• Everything begins in Paris.

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  Paris

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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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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  Book, Writing, Atmosphere

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• The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

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  Beautiful, Book, World

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

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  Romantic Love, Love Is, Realist

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

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  Cities, Paris, Village

  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.

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  Book, Dirty, Eggs

  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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  Money

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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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  Clothes, Hair, Hats

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• I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

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  Book, Four

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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