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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
Linguist
Musicologist
Novelist
Poet
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Writer
Harrow
Silvia Warner
Women
Always
Heavier
Expected

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Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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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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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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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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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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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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