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Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE , mais conhecida como Nancy Mitford foi uma escritora, biógrafa e jornalista inglesa. Ela é mais conhecida por seus romances sobre a vida da classe alta na Inglaterra e na França e por seu humor refinado e muitas vezes provocativo. Ela também deu a si mesma a reputação de escritora de biografias históricas.

✵ 28. Novembro 1904 – 30. Junho 1973
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Nancy Mitford: Frases em inglês

“Well, now you can see for yourself that she was delicate", said Davey triumphantly. "She's dead. It killed her. Doesn't that show you? I do wish I could make you Radletts understand that there is no such thing as imaginary illness. Nobody who is quite well could possibly be bothered to do all the things that I, for instance, am obliged to, in order to keep my wretched frame on its feet.”

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Nancy Mitford livro Love in a Cold Climate

Fonte: Love in a Cold Climate

“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”

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Nancy Mitford

Fonte: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

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“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”

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Nancy Mitford livro The Pursuit of Love

Fonte: The Pursuit of Love

“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”

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Nancy Mitford livro Christmas Pudding

Fonte: Christmas Pudding

“Sun, silence, and happiness.”

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Nancy Mitford livro The Pursuit of Love

Fonte: The Pursuit of Love

“always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives”

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Nancy Mitford livro The Pursuit of Love

Fonte: The Pursuit of Love

“But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.'
Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”

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Nancy Mitford

Fonte: The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

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