Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
ATTRIBUTION:
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), British novelist, story writer, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. As quoted in Elizabeth Bowen, ch. 8, by Edmund Wilson, who was in turn quoted by Victoria Glendinning (1979).
On why she had enjoyed being in London during World War II.
