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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
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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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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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.
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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
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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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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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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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I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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