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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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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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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.
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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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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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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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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
noise is a pollution.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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