TT: Almanac

“After all, life isn’t really so unpleasant as some writers make out, is it?” she added hopefully.
“No, perhaps not. It’s comic and sad and indefinite–dull, sometimes, but seldom really tragic or deliriously happy, except when one’s very young.”
Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
UPDATE: A friend writes: “I said at the time that reading Barbara Pym made me want to go off and join a motorcycle gang, and that quote reminds me of why.”