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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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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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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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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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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The fatal flaw of gravity when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash and then for a very long time you are old.
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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.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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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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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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Love amazes, but it does not surprise.
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