Letters to a Friend Quotes

“For 78 years, four months and three weeks I've been meaning to overcome this fatal habit of postponing the boring by quickly doing something nice instead -- oh dear!”
― Diana Athill, Letters to a Friend

“The trouble with life is that incidents so often merely follow each other rather than grow out of each other ...”
― Diana Athill, Letters to a Friend

“The sentence I most sympathized with is 'Whatever hangups this indicated, I'd preferred men who seemed perfectly ordinary' - my sentiments, precisely, about life in general which I don't like to see pushed to fanciful extremes because it's good enough as it is.”
― Diana Athill, Letters to a Friend