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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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 baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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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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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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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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