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• Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

  Jan Struther

  Opportunity, Employment, World

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.79, Prabhat Prakashan

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• O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

  Jan Struther

  Simple, Simple Words

  Jan Struther, “London Lovers”

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• there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.

  Jan Struther

  Family, Believe, Successful

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

  Jan Struther

  Stars, Lakes, Air

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• It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Home, Eye

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.13, Prabhat Prakashan

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• how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Fun, Discovery

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

  Jan Struther

  Life, Time, Years

  Jan Struther (1946). “A Pocket Full of Pebbles”

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• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

  Jan Struther

  Couple, Successful, Trying

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• To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

  Jan Struther

  Country, Travel, Fun

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• And I am a mockery, who was God before.

  Jan Struther

  Mockery

  Jan Struther, “Age”

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• I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

  Jan Struther

  Cat, Kitchen, Black

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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