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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
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Silvia Warner
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One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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The Church has lost a great religious poet in me but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.
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Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.
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You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash and then for a very long time you are old.
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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