The Mitford Sisters
Dedicated to the most scandalous bunch of sisters of the 20th century. Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Communist, Unity the Hitler-lover, Nancy the Novelist, Deborah the Duchess and Pamela the unobtrusive poultry connoisseur.
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20thMarTue
“ But, while they picked up a great deal of heterogeneous information, and gilded it with their own originality, while they bridged gulfs of ignorance with their charm and high spirits, they never acquired the habit of concentration, they were incapable of solid hard work. One result, later in life, was that they could not stand boredom. Storms and difficulties left them unmoved, but day after day of ordinary existence produced an unbearable torture of ennui, because they completely lacked any form of mental discipline. ”
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Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
Someone should have had a talk with my father while he was raising me…and someone else should have spoken to Nancy Mitford about her comma splice habit.
(via carpinteria)
19thMarMon
“ 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. ”
- Nancy Mitford (via weedcave)
1stMaySun
“ In an era when huge television audiences watch surgical operations in the comfort of their living rooms, when, thanks to the animated cartoon, the geography of the digestive system has become familiar territory even to the nursery-school set, in a land where the satisfaction of curiousity about almost all matters is a national past-time, surely the secretness of embalming cannot be attributed to the inherent gruesomeness of the subject. ”
- The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
