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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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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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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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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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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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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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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